CNN = Vatican C-SPAN this morning?

What the hell is this? The pope is dying, we get it. Why are we getting a mass beamed into our homes live? CNN's race to the bottom of the dung heap continues....

On Edit:
Just to clarify, this is not an attack on catholics or the pope.
This is about a news organization beaming a religious service uninterrupted into our living rooms. It is disrespectful to those of other faiths and it is not the function of a news organization.

Catholics and non-catholics.

A Pope doesn't die everyday.

I understand and acknowledge that, and my problem isn't with those who mourn his passing.
My problem is that there is a religous service being beamed live into everyone's homes via a "news" channel. That is not news.
Do you see the difference?

to the hospital where he can get the proper care?(insert sarcasm here)

I was just too chicken to post it.

maybe we can get an order that forces him to get treatment. :-)

Outside of the Vatican yet?

we are all Catholic now. CNN just didn't tell us yet.

We're sorry to inconvenience you.

I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore, but Pope John Paul II is a truly good man and he will be missed by many people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

I have no problem with coverage, and this could be a good opportunity to educate non-catholics. I know they will be talking about it all day. But beaming a religous service into everyone's living room is offensive.
I guess all the Protestants and Muslims can go pound sand today.

It may be offensive to you, but that does not make it offensive per se.

:P

Falwell or....

This happens everytime a Pope dies so, for once, CNN, etc, aren't doing anything that hasn't been done even when actual news was reported.

Edited to add: We will see the hypocrisy of the media when the leader of any other religion that #s it's followers in the billions dies and the coverage will be the 20 second blurb.

I don't fault the coverage on the Pope, only the hypocrisy inherent in the lack of coverage of other equally important religious leaders.

CNN. (I'm not sure of that though.)

This is the fourth pope spectacle I've witnessed...all on the tube...and I would expect coverage of masses and words from various Vatican and American church officials. I'm not a xtian, but I can appreciate the beauty and special moment this is for the Catholic church and the somber pagentry that is unfolding.

The thing I find objectionable...and this happened with the Pentacostal fundies all day yesterday with Terri Schaivo, is the constant morality play this network is subliminally, and now, overtly playing. Instead of being a reporter of fact, they're a relayer of fact.

Fortunately many of the priests who I've seen are speaking more to their faithful than to play politics, but that hasn't been the case with this network's tilt toward playing "morality cop".

think of itlike this: everytime news happens somewhere the newsfolks get there and.... wait. Wait for whatever to happen, official announcements, The Big Event.

If there were a plan hijacking, you'd say pics of the airport and the airplan sitting on the tarmac

If there were a bombing, you'd see the building in a shell, ambulances going to an fro, and people screaming.

If there were an election, you'd see ballot boxes, people voting, people counting votes, etc.

So, this is the vatican and we have dying pope on our hands. While we are waiting for the official word, you're watching what goes on there ordinarily, which is a church service.

And even one more step further, OJ Simpson takes the police on a car chase, and you watch a Bronco driving around LA for hours.

Or really, any car chase ("Oh, he's turning again....looks like they may try and box him in....oh, he maneuvered around that one...turning again...blah, blah, blah).

And two, I was born in 1980, so I've never seen coverage of a Pope dying and a new one being elected.

I find it fascinating. I don't agree with the Pope on a lot of things, but I respect the man. As the leader of a huge religion, I totally understand why all the news is practically only talking about the Pope. It is a huge news story when a Pope dies.

And really, I'd rather watch about the Pope, than more about Terri Schiavo and the "feud of the funeral" or Michael Jackson or Jerry Falwell.

but I really don't have a problem with this. :shrug: I can always turn it off it get to be too much. There are millions of Catholics (both practicing and non) around the world who feel a connection for what is going on. And they still have the crawl with other news, too.

Personally, if it's a choice between this and Tom DeLay excoriating the judicial system, I'll choose the Pope!

edit to add: In fact, I think I'm more interested in this than my Catholic husband. When the Pope was hospitalized in February and with the events leading up to this moment, I'd sometimes look at him and say, "Uh-oh". He just looked back and said, "What? He's an old guy!" with a shrug.

Quick, switch the station. All that Popery might sully your innocent TV.

All this "change the channel" silliness ignores the fact that it's supposed to be a news channel. I realize the standards for what constitutes news are at an all time low, but I'd like at least a small glimpse of what is going on in the world right now.