Pope John Paul II

[furicchia blu]

Just wanted to say he's dead about an hour ago, more probably a few hours ago, but it's the same... R.I.P.

Cristina

[Lancelot]

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" Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven "

[NewYorkJettster]

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[gus danger]

Not being Catholic it's hard for me to pontifficate about it.
He's going to a better place, would be a major understatement, I reckon.

R.I.P. Pope!
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Have you noticed how many newscasters are shedding crocodile-tears for John Paul II?

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Coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II by many television reporters on the scene has been criticized by their brethren working in print.

"The desire to match the solemnity of the moment and the mood of mourners brought out some of the most cloying prose in television history," wrote New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley, who also commented that NBC anchor Brian Williams and CNN's Aaron Brown "began sounding more Catholic than the cardinals, and Diane Sawyer went into the kind of transports usually associated with St. Teresa of Avila."

Julie Hinds of the Detroit Free Press was critical of Fox News and CNN's efforts to turn virtually all their 24-hour coverage to the story, which included an interview with Darrell Mease, a killer who was spared from execution after the pope intervened with the governor of Missouri.

"Darrell, was the pope a popular man in prison?" Fox reporter Greta Van Susteren asked. "There aren't many Catholics here, but he wasn't unpopular," Mease replied.

Several critics remarked that TV reporters seemed to go out of their way to avoid any discussion of criticism of the pope, from the right or left.

When on Fox News, Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee remarked that Arabs were impressed by the pope's strong stance against America's war in Iraq, commentator Neil Cavuto attempted to cut him off, saying that "his views were not that black and white on the war."

When Ibish responded, "No, I think you're wrong about that," Cavuto replied, "I don't want to argue with you today because I like you."

Appearing on MSNBC, NBC anchor Brian Williams recalled covering the pope's "magical trip" to meet with Fidel Castro in 1996, "marred, at its height, by a bulletin from the U.S. that Newsweek magazine was running a story about the president and an intern."

All three major TV networks as well as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC plan to carry the pope's funeral on Friday beginning at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

[gus danger]

Kinda makes ya wonder what they are NOT reporting!

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