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Baldwin pulled out of last night’s Emmy telecast after a joke about
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was cut from a segment that he had recorded
to open the broadcast. Baldwin tweeted “I did a short Emmy pretape a
few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line.” The
joke reportedly involved Baldwin on a telephone and saying, “Is that
you, Rupert?” a reference to News Corp’s much-publicized phone-hacking
scandal. Fox said the network believed it was inappropriate to make
light of an issue being taken seriously by the company. After the joke
was cut, Baldwin no longer wanted his segment to be part of the
broadcast and Fox re-shot the clip with Leonard Nimoy.
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