I first attended and wrote about the Daytime Emmys in 1980 and I should be over them by now. But I continue, year after year, to be exasperated by the fact that two things never change: (1) No matter how many times they have been revised or have been updated over the years, the nomination and award processes are still inequitable and unfair.; and (2) there is always one irritating thing that happens along the way with either the nominations or awards that's so egregious, Marlena explodes with rage!
Elaine Liner
Elaine Liner currently writes arts and media criticism for the Dallas Observer and other publications. A graduate of Trinity University, with a master's from SMU, Liner teaches writing and criticism on the college level. For a decade she wrote for daily news… read more