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Is it just me or does anyone else think Sky News goes a bit over the top when reporting big events such as the Popes imminent death. They rabbit on in the studio over and over again, they show the same piece of film every 10 seconds, they drag up experts in this and that and just waffle on for hours on end. I'm sure it's just to kill time. They've even sent a reporter to Poland where the Pope was born.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't think they intend to go in for overkill (so to speak). They would probably be perfectly happy with just half an hour or so. But the pope has been clinging on a lot longer than anyone expected, so they've had to be on standby and keep talking so that they're ready to cover it when it finally happens. The pope's death is something that's predictable and unpredictable - you know it's going to happen soon but nobody knows exactly when. That's pretty unusual - most news events are completely predictable (royal weddings, say, planned down to the last second) or completely unpredictable.
You are so right and they stir up stories which are quite mild normally and get people raving mad - having said this I am still glad that I can receive it inSpain as I like to know what is happening in the dear of UK: I do not mean to imply that the Pope's imminent demise is mild or trivial - but other stories are.
Yes you are spot on..i'm afraid its called 24 hour news, and its not just sky, the bbc, itn, cnn they are all the same, they just recycle the same old soundbites over and over again, interviewing the ''experts''....i wish they would just shut up and move on to other stories, until the time when the vatican finally announces the death of the great man, the trouble is they have already acted as if he has died and used all the tribute pieces already...
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Since my last post I've done a bit more googling about Pope Joan and it seems she was a bit of an urban myth, which suggests that the manhood-checker who announces 'Habeamus papam et habet testiculos' may also be mythical.
That doesn't mean there'll be a female pope any time soon, however, so aspirants will have to settle for being Queen of the Baleares. Hope that's ok.