Sorry that I haven't blogged more, and earlier, today, but I spent much of it in media hell. First, there was the ridiculous delay downstairs at "The View's" studio in New York, forcing journalists to hang out in the lobby for more than half of an hour while Susan Lucci and cohorts used the press room upstairs to entertain pals, thus keeping everyone else out.

Finally, they skedaddled about 10 minutes before the start of "The View." We scrambled upstairs, settled down and watched the show, but something was missing: the list of nominations! And there was no press rep anywhere to be found whom we could yell at to fetch it. Usually, at nomination news conferences, the lists are distributed around the room to journalists as soon as the first categories are read at a podium. Even after the "The View" was over, none of us could find the list. Not even online.

A press rep finally did enter the room, but she had nothing for us but a stern order to pick up our computers and cameras and follow her. Dutifully, we obliged. She led us up an ominous, narrow staircase and then trapped us inside. Yes. See photo below. A loooooooong time passed, at least 10 minutes, before we were finally sprung free. Meantime, we were cramped so tightly in that stairwell that, if anyone had tumbled, it would've set off a deadly avalanche of journos.

Finally, later on, we emerged from captivity and were permitted to step out onto the set of "The View," which was now mostly barren of celebs. Yeah, a few stray soap stars stayed behind to talk to us after the majority fled once their duties ended as category announcers. Even though the hosts of "The View" were, technically, our hosts today and were nominated by Emmy voters as best TV hosts, they proved to be the worst. None of them except for Sherri Shepherd stuck around to say howdy. At least I didn't see them. Now that I think about it, we were probably locked in that stairwell earlier to give them time to escape before we wild beasts were uncaged.

One good thing: Once I was sprung free upstairs, I found a press rep who kindly gave me a list of nominations at long last! But at that point it was more than 45 minutes after they'd been announced and I did not have access to my computer and couldn't blog.

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