cash wrote:

Will they have around the clock coverage. It's not a big deal like it used to be. 

I bet all the Relevant Radio (such as 940-WIDG and 1640-WSJP) stations in the USA will be on it 24/7. 

Locally, there's Rochester's 1460-WHIC (the "Station of the Annoyed" ), the FM serving Buffalo on 101.7 and WGGO-Salamanca on 1590.   
 

The "Entertainment" tabloid shows like ET, Inside Hollywood, and E Talk will milk the story for at least a month, just like they did when Princess Diane died. A celebrity death is entertainment

Last edited by turkeytop (February 22, 2025 9:39 pm)

Now that the precedent has been set for popes to resign instead of die in office it is not such a big deal, but I guess still important if you are a Catholic, which I am not.
Also Francis had talked about resigning anyway.
But his death or resignation does pave the way for a choice of an even more progressive pontiff than Francis (who was not all that progressive really).
Could there be a black pope?
A Canadian pope?

 

newsguy1 wrote:

Now that the precedent has been set for popes to resign instead of die in office it is not such a big deal, but I guess still important if you are a Catholic, which I am not.
Also Francis had talked about resigning anyway.
But his death or resignation does pave the way for a choice of an even more progressive pontiff than Francis (who was not all that progressive really).
Could there be a black pope?
A Canadian pope?

 

I wouldn't put it past the idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue decreeing himself. 🤨

newsguy1 wrote:

Now that the precedent has been set for popes to resign instead of die in office it is not such a big deal, but I guess still important if you are a Catholic, which I am not.
Also Francis had talked about resigning anyway.
But his death or resignation does pave the way for a choice of an even more progressive pontiff than Francis (who was not all that progressive really).
Could there be a black pope?
A Canadian pope?

 

Justin Trudeau is available in a few weeks.

About 30% of the Canadian population is nominally Catholic so even if most are not regular churchgoers or even practicing, the pope is of interest. Popes are also transcendent figures who are influential beyond their own flock. There's also the pageantry around papal funerals and elections - not to mention the current film Conclave.

The Pope's death or resignation will be front page news and you are bound to see one hour retrospective documentaries on the news channels and probably also NBC, ABC, CBS and CBC News specials on the main networks as well as live coverage of the papal election.

Leslieville Bill wrote:

According to what I found, only around 5% of the province’s total population might be considered actively practicing Roman Catholics. Does that mean the story should be top of the news? I don't think so.

There's been way too much sexual abuse to take that institution seriously. 

An old work chum of mine (an excellent editor and reporter) once told me he really wanted to be a priest.  He was a devout Catholic.
But he said he just couldn't because he loved having sex with women too much.
Yep.

turkeytop wrote:

The "Entertainment" tabloid shows like ET, Inside Hollywood, and E Talk will milk the story for at least a month, just like they did when Princess Diane died. A celebrity death is entertainment

Highly doubt that. 

I knew a woman who was an editor with a news service and she admitted to doing the one thing you never do in the news biz.
Never write anything on a computer screen that you do not intend to send out.
This woman, let's call her Jane, was training a new editor on operating the main desk.
She wanted to be funny (god knows why) so she wrote a bulletin saying a plane had hit the CN Tower.
She told the trainee this is how you format a bulletin, then she gestured at the send button and said this is your send command, and somehow she didn't realize she actually pressed the button and sent the bulletin out.
She told me she tried desperately to kill the bulletin, but it still went out.
She was hauled up to a management disciplinary meeting and the only reason she was spared was because her union went to bat for her because she had a spotless record and had never made any significant mistakes, ever.
Interestingly Jane was one of the employees who hated the union and didn't want to be a member.
Without the union she would have been fired on the spot.

 

newsguy1 wrote:

I knew a woman who was an editor with a news service and she admitted to doing the one thing you never do in the news biz.
Never write anything on a computer screen that you do not intend to send out.
This woman, let's call her Jane, was training a new editor on operating the main desk.
She wanted to be funny (god knows why) so she wrote a bulletin saying a plane had hit the CN Tower.
She told the trainee this is how you format a bulletin, then she gestured at the send button and said this is your send command, and somehow she didn't realize she actually pressed the button and sent the bulletin out.
She told me she tried desperately to kill the bulletin, but it still went out.
She was hauled up to a management disciplinary meeting and the only reason she was spared was because her union went to bat for her because she had a spotless record and had never made any significant mistakes, ever.
Interestingly Jane was one of the employees who hated the union and didn't want to be a member.
Without the union she would have been fired on the spot.

 

Did her view on the union change after that?

(In my experience it's often those who are the most anti-union who end up getting in trouble and turning to the union for help)

Radiowiz wrote:

cash wrote:

Will they have around the clock coverage. It's not a big deal like it used to be. 

Sure. But why "if"?

This is an old thread surrounding the then-possible death of the pope. At the time it was posted in February, he was still very much alive. Hence, the use of the term "if." 

Hansa wrote:

newsguy1 wrote:

I knew a woman who was an editor with a news service and she admitted to doing the one thing you never do in the news biz.
Never write anything on a computer screen that you do not intend to send out.
This woman, let's call her Jane, was training a new editor on operating the main desk.
She wanted to be funny (god knows why) so she wrote a bulletin saying a plane had hit the CN Tower.
She told the trainee this is how you format a bulletin, then she gestured at the send button and said this is your send command, and somehow she didn't realize she actually pressed the button and sent the bulletin out.
She told me she tried desperately to kill the bulletin, but it still went out.
She was hauled up to a management disciplinary meeting and the only reason she was spared was because her union went to bat for her because she had a spotless record and had never made any significant mistakes, ever.
Interestingly Jane was one of the employees who hated the union and didn't want to be a member.
Without the union she would have been fired on the spot.

 

Did her view on the union change after that?

(In my experience it's often those who are the most anti-union who end up getting in trouble and turning to the union for help)

No. But she left the company a few years later.