A 104-minute keynote at a convention with no candidate. The speech had more words than the funding bill, more promises than the budget, and fewer people in the room than the Emmys will have Monday.
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The Emmys hand statues Monday to shows canceled in May, on a network turning 100, streamed for $17 a month. Television is the only industry where the funeral is televised and has a red carpet.
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