ClydeR
09-19-2011, 03:11 PM
The opening video for tonight’s Primetime Emmy Awards on News Corp-owned Fox was supposed to feature 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin playing a fictional president of television. But after a joke about News Corp topper Rupert Murdoch and the ongoing UK phone-hacking scandal involving his media empire was cut from the pretaped bit, Baldwin pulled out. He was replaced at the last minute by Star Trek veteran Leonard Nimoy, who re-did the skit sans the News Corp joke.
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Can you imagine how disappointed everybody would have been if Fox had allowed Alec Baldwin to turn the Emmys into a political statement about the world's best journalist Rupert Murdoch? They shouldn't let this phone hacking scandal ever be mentioned on any of their channels. I don't watch the regular Fox channel very often, but I can assure you they have done a good job of mostly keeping it off of Fox News.
More... (http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/fox-nixes-alec-baldwin-joke-about-news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-in-emmy-bit-baldwin-walks-replaced-by-leonard-nimoy/)
Can you imagine how disappointed everybody would have been if Fox had allowed Alec Baldwin to turn the Emmys into a political statement about the world's best journalist Rupert Murdoch? They shouldn't let this phone hacking scandal ever be mentioned on any of their channels. I don't watch the regular Fox channel very often, but I can assure you they have done a good job of mostly keeping it off of Fox News.