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Television is on a creative roll, but for some reason the Emmys have slumped into Brezhnev-style stagnation, with the same shows winning the top honors year after year. However deserving those shows may be, “again” is not the most exhilarating word in awards-show language. So it would be fun if some newer offerings beat out the favorites.

We did a double take when we heard about a four-day cancer seminar for journalists being paid for by drug giant Pfizer. Fifteen reporters will get  all-expenses-paid trips to Washington in October for the session.

Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Wired magazine Editor Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism.

Although skillfully scripted TV programs do have to compete against grungy reality TV shows for Emmy Awards -- a fairly recent, 21st-century development — at least trained, professional actors have been spared the indignity of going up against somebody's Aunt Minny or Uncle Fudd, stars of such sure-fire amateur productions as Aunt Minny falls into the potato salad or Uncle Fudd takes a Frisbee in the groin.

The aftermath of Megyn Kelly's interview with a former Justice Department lawyer over a New Black Panther Party case has made her a hero and a villain. The Fox News Channel host is a hero to fans who appreciate the time she has spent on a story about a nightstick-carrying New Black Panther Party member standing outside a 2008 polling place, wondering if it reflects an Obama administration inconsistency in pursuing civil rights cases. But she's a villain to critics who believe Kelly is promoting a dubious story given outsized attention because it could hurt a president unpopular with most of Fox's viewers. (AP)

There's a debate going on about the anchor role, sparked by a Houston station that's considering an anchorless news test this fall. Under that plan, reporters will be in the field, but there won't be anchors at a desk in a studio.

How do you keep football fans as regular visitors to stadiums when the television coverage of every play is so good? For the Giants and the Jets, the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is more and better video than people can get at home. (New York Times)

Long before there were Twihards, there were people who watched TV's Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Faithfully. Every weekday afternoon. And they're still around, if the recent Dark Shadows in the Sun festival is any indication. (Miami Herald)