Each year, the Emmy Awards offer the television industry a mirror in which to examine what it values most. This Monday's ceremony arrives carrying the particular weight of potential history, with 'The Pitt' positioned to achieve something the academy has not yet recorded in its annals, while the comedy field has narrowed to a genuine contest between 'Widow's Bay' and 'Hacks' — two shows that each argue, in their own way, for what the form can accomplish. Awards nights are rarely only about trophies; they are moments when an industry declares, however imperfectly, what stories it believes deser