Alec Baldwin Rips Fox And News Corp. After Emmys Snafu
Posted on Sep 19, 2011 @ 03:30PM
By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter
Alec Baldwin missed the Emmy awards Sunday night and explained his absence in a biting post combining his trademark humor with a zinger at Fox network’s parent company News Corp.
Explaining that he had a prior commitment for a charity event, he said that he had pre-taped a skit with host Jane Lynch that the network decided not to air during the Emmys broadcast.
“In that routine, I made a joke about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal which the writers and producers had pre-approved before I made the trip. We shot the segment with the joke in. A couple of days later, I was informed that the producers had been told by some Fox entity that the joke had to be cut. I then asked that the entire piece be omitted, as I felt the joke was, perhaps, the funniest thing in it,” Baldwin wrote on the Huffington Post.
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He continued: “I did not boycott the Emmys due to that edit. I suppose I am accustomed to a different experience, having worked on 30 Rock for so long, where we have been given the license to skewer the General Electric corporate culture without interference from GE. GE was nothing but gracious and even appreciative of the jokes.”
And then he ripped into the network. “However, in some sense, I understand News Corps.' reluctance to include that joke. If I were accused of illegally hacking into the private phone messages of the families of innocent crime victims and doing so purely for profit, I would be eager for that scandal to go away, too.”
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It was announced Monday that News Corp. are in talks with the family of Milly Dowler, a murdered teen whose phone was hacked by one of their papers, the News of the World.
The BBC reported that Murdoch’s corporation has offered the Dowler family $3.2 million as way of compensation, and to donate $1.6 million to charity. The News of the World was closed down on July 10, it had been in circulation for 168 years.
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The Daily Juice
Always been a complete tool, just like his brothers. Go away You POS. No one wants you here. Your taking away good oxygen from us people who DO CARE. Leave now!
Posted Tue, 09/20/2011 - 3:07am
Is tubby off his meds again? His poor daughter might have to accept his abuse but no one else does. Grow up Alex. You're an embarrassment to your child.
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 11:17pm
As as NBC news airs a Story about GE moving thousands of aircraft jobs to China and that their Chairman is Obama's US JOBS CZAR then I will agree NBC is "fair and balanced.
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 9:55pm
Or to Cuba---he can take Michael Moore and Sean Penn with him.
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 9:29pm
Just more proof of the engineered "lies of omisson" that Fox News is famous for! If NBC can take it from 30Rock on a weekly basis then Fox should be able to handle one skit!
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 8:06pm
Just more proof of the engineered "lies of omisson" that Fox News is famous for! If NBC can take it from 30Rock on a weekly basis then Fox should be able to handle one skit!
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 8:06pm
Why would anyone support some huge company who hacks into people's phones????? This is America folks!
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 7:15pm
What a POS. GO AWAY America hater!
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 7:03pm
look up piece of sh*t in the dictionary...you'll find his picture.
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 6:22pm
Hasn't this bum moved to France yet?
Posted Mon, 09/19/2011 - 6:05pm