No offense but I'm tired of hearing about the Pope(s)

[telewinz]

I agree, he was/is a great man, he is a saint(?), he is/was a World leader, Catholics number one billion faithful, the new Pope is not a reformer and served in the Hitler Youth and the German Army (against his will?).  Ok. lets move on, enough media pandering.

[cfabe]

I agree with you. I was tired of hearing about the pope before he even died.

[theCZ]

Yep, I'm in the same boat.  I understand it's important, but it seems like we're just hearing about trivial information.

[JAlexander]

Yep, me too.  He was a good man, but enough already.  And did I miss something?  Is there any other reason flags have been at half mast for the last however long?  If not, could we please move along?
No offense meant to our Catholic contingent, but given that a new Pope has been elected, I think it's time to move on to other matters.

James

[Guest]

I heard on the radio that they chose a rap singer to be pope.

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

Bah, you can never get enough infotainment on the new Pope. It beats the endless rehashing of the Michael Jackson case.

God almighty, what a relief it is when a volcano, or new Pope, or anything else diverts these obsessive-compulsives at Fox News et al. away from the latest murder trial they're using to sell soap.

PBS carried the Pope's installation mass today. Fox spent the majority of that time replaying scenes of Michael Jackson walking into a courtroom, and scenes of his ex-wife. And I mean these talking heads at Fox probably replayed these two scenes 25 times in a hour, interspresed with ads for home loans from DiTech.com : "lost another loan to Ditech" yes, and another potential customer to your freaking mind-numbing repitition of that stinking ad. Hell must be a lot like an eternity of watching Fox News.

Bring on more of the new Pope.

[Warbow]

Bah, you can never get enough infotainment on the new Pope. It beats the endless rehashing of the Michael Jackson case.

God almighty, what a relief it is when a volcano, or new Pope, or anything else diverts these obsessive-compulsives at Fox News et al. away from the latest murder trial they're using to sell soap.

PBS carried the Pope's installation mass today. Fox spent the majority of that time replaying scenes of Michael Jackson walking into a courtroom, and scenes of his ex-wife. And I mean these talking heads at Fox probably replayed these two scenes 25 times in a hour, interspresed with ads for home loans from DiTech.com : "lost another loan to Ditech" yes, and another potential customer to your freaking mind-numbing repitition of that stinking ad. Hell must be a lot like an eternity of watching Fox News.

Bring on more of the new Pope.

[jefnvk]

I'm tired of hearing about most people on the news.  Why is MJ geting so much attention?  Or peterson?

[XLMiguel]

jefnvk - It's because there's more bandwidth than news .  That's not really true, but the really interesting stuff requires more than 30 seconds to absorb, and also requires that you pay attnetion and are able to digest compound and complex sentences.  That and there's only so much news the American publik can abosorb in 20 min., when the majority of the audience has an attention span only slightly longer than a chipmunk's.

So rather than things that might actually effect your life like tax reform, SS reform, healthcare, securing the borders, etc, we get sensational and useless crap about MJ, run-a-way brides, the Pope, natural disasteratorcity du jour, American Idol and sportsblather.  I guess that's why conservative talk radio is doing so well.

When there isn't much going on, sometimes '15 minutes of fame' can go on a while, or, the reason talk is cheap is because the supply generally exceeds the demand.