Alec Baldwin's Emmy bit nixed on Fox after star jokes about News Corp. hacking

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Alec Baldwin's Emmy bit nixed on Fox after '30 Rock' stars joke about News Corp. hacking scandal
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/09/18/2011-09-18_alec_baldwins_emmy_bit_nixed_on_fox_after_30_rock_stars_joke_about_news_corp_hac.html

Alec Baldwin wasn't laughing when Fox cut his pre-taped crack poking fun at boss Rupert Murdoch from Sunday night's Emmy Awards.

The "30 Rock" star told the network to just pull the plug on the whole thing, sources said.

"They edited out a line and he asked them to not air the segment," a Baldwin pal confirmed. "He didn't want to do something that had been edited afterwards because if it's comedy and you take out a key line it just doesn't work."
http://twitter.com/#!/AlecBaldwin/status/115500151732314112
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In the bit, Baldwin is seen talking on the phone and then stops the conversation and calls out Murdoch by name, saying he can hear him listening in.

[Rex]

1. They censored it, because the truth would hurt them since

they spend billions to keep Murdoch above the laws of many civilized nations. He is the Don of the world.