Friday, April 08, 2005
Pope Funeral: More Coverage of the Coverage Round-UP
> Baltimore Sun: Shepard Smith on the Fox News Channel, the anchorman who had prematurely pronounced the pope dead by 25 hours last week, needlessly overstated the service by telling viewers before the start of the mass that they were about to see "what may be the most spectacular event ever put on television."
> New Zealand Herald: CNN decided the appropriate tone for death is always immense sadness and its presenters were suitably doleful. Repeatedly they told us Catholics were in mourning. In fact, the Pope was an old man who had been painfully ill for a long time and increasingly unable to perform a role that permits no retirement. His death was going to be a blessed release.
UPDATE: 7:20pm
> Chicago Tribune: "I wonder if we can just pause for a moment and just hear these bells ringing out over Vatican City," said CNN's Bill Hemmer, minutes before the pope's coffin was carried out of St. Peter's Basilica.
From time to time, CNN showed what viewers in other countries, such as South Korea or Cuba, were seeing on their television sets.
UPDATE: 9:11pm:
> UK Telegraph: The dispatch of Anderson Cooper, the ultra-polished CNN star and arguably the closest American television has to royalty, hot-footing it from Rome to anchor today's coverage is proof enough of the enduring love affair between America and the Royal Family - or at least proof enough that the schedulers know what makes for an entertaining weekend after a week of Papal pomp.
This post will be updated as the day progresses.
# posted by ATN @ 3:27 PM 
