I read an article from the New York Times on the Emmy's which can be found at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/television/22emmys.html?_r=1&ref=television&oref=slogin

It was a pretty interesting recap of the evening which I watched last night as well. I guess my interest in these awards was primarily due to my infatuation with the AMC show, "Mad Men". Something about that show just makes you love it... 

I've been bombarded with many other headlines while accessing my Yahoo e-mail which makes it obvious that the five hosts, the nominees for the category of Best Reality Host, were seen as a flop by everyone. In the New York Times article it even says: 

"If anything, the performance of the five reality-show hosts who together played masters of ceremony on the awards show might inspire the executives not to abandon scripted television."

I found that pretty funny being a huge fan of well-written cable shows (like Mad Men, Dexter, Weeds, The Sopranos, etc) and a proud abstainer from "reality" shows that are said to be so popular in my social category. I can't believe that girls my age actually watch The Hills and that one new show where Paris Hilton is trying to find a best friend...

The article spends a lot of time talking about the sweeps of both HBO (who came out with 10 emmys) and 30 Rock which got best comedy, best actor in a comedy, best actress in a comedy, and best writing in a comedy. I've never seen 30 Rock, but somehow I don't believe it deserved all of that. Honestly, I've never found anything that Tina Fey has done to be remotely funny... Why do people keep insisting that she's so very talented when SNL hasn't been funny since Will Ferrel and she was the writer behind all of those lame skits? I say it's 100% propaganda. People will say that Ms. Fey is hilarious without being able to name a single funny thing that she's ever done...

As usual, the Times give almost no opinions on any of the topics they report on. It's a remarkable newspaper, but whenever I catch not a single whiff of propaganda, I get nervous about how much there must be under the detectable layer. Of course this applies more to their political articles as I'm not too worried about them warping my opinions about award ceremonies...