Tonight was pretty cool. My aunt, who lives with my grandparents and takes care of them, stopped by on her way through with her extremely tall and almost hippie-like boyfriend. So totally unlike her husband, her soulmate, who passed away a few short years ago. It seems to work well though and we had a great meal at a great new Mexican restaurant.
J-Man had an essay due a couple of days ago for his middle school journalism class on the subject of last Sunday’s Emmys controversy involving Conan O’Brien’s skit regarding the airplane crash. I kind of liked his reasoning:
Journalism Essay
By J-Man
The Emmy Awards were Sunday night and everyone watched in anticipation as actors and actresses were dressed in their nice clothes, hoping to get the trophy. Conan O’Brien had some bad timing as he showed a skit of him in a comedy short of him in a plane crash like the one from the popular series. “Lost”. The skit, which was on the show Sunday night, happened on the same day a plane crashed during takeoff in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 50 people. Many people thought this was wrong and someone should have taken the skit out, but I say that it may not have been needed in there, but hey if someone makes a movie about bunnies taking over the world and it is released the same day bunnies attack a farm town’s crops and the fifty people who lived there can’t have food until the next town 500 miles away can send them food, it doesn’t mean it’s the movie creator’s fault the crops are gone.
O’Brien could have not known about the crash and it was a comedy thing about “Lost,” not about Lexington. I’m not saying the skit should have stayed in, but should they cancel something, just because something like it happened? The Emmy Awards were planned in advance, not the plane crash. You can’t just change something that fast and even if you can, it isn’t Conan’s fault. This was simply bad timing, but no one should be mad like people I’ve seen in chat rooms online.
Besides the plane problem, other things happened that made people mad, or confused about the Emmys. NBC launched the Emmy Awards early this year and less people knew about when it was going to be on television, so 2.6 million viewers missed the Emmy Awards. Not only that, but some viewers were watching season finales and original episodes of “Entourage” and “Big Brother”.
Not only that, but it’s school season and many parents were getting kids ready for the first or second week of school that night and were too busy to watch the Emmy Awards.
That is not the only thing that dropped the ratings of the awards; a new rule makes it so blue ribbon panels vote instead of members.
The results of the Emmy awards included the show “24” for Best Drama. “The Office” won Best Comedy. Many actresses were given awards such as Mariska Hargitay, who is on “Law and Order: SVU,” and Julia Louis-Dreyfus who is in, “New Adventures of Old Christine” as Best-Actress honorees.
In conclusion, this was one of the strangest Emmy Awards. More information on the Emmys can be found at this url: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tv_emmys .
Published on: Aug 31, 2006
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