I was away from the computer/news most of the day, and upon returning I see that news TV is hot and heavy on the Pope’s throat surgery. From what I’ve seen, this story has two elements thus far:
(1) The Pope had a tracheotomy, and
(2) The powers that be have deemed it successful.
It takes less than a minute to adequately cover these points. The remainder of the continuous coverage is being consumed by general Pope talk and surgery fillers. Which, in my view, aren’t too interesting.
There’s only some much interest you can milk out of someone’s post-operative status. The newsies either need to elevate this story to a death watch or move to another story.
Hmmmmm. Have the TV Snooze outlets all moved to St. Louis?
This kind of All Pope All The Time news coverage was de rigeur in St. Louis, but that’s because there’s so many damn conservative Catholics there. But I’d expect the rest of the world to have more sense, and a better set of priorities.