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Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 4 2005, 11:11 AM
Colin, I do not think its from too much competition.
I am tired of Pope TV as well, but with 1 in 4 people on the planet being Catholic, it will effect coverage.
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The way I figure it, CNN puts any other news story on today and MORE eyeballs go to Pope TV. The only choice a ratings motivated network can make is to do cover what everyone else is - though with varying lenses.
Same thing with every other major week-long plus news story the past few years. The more competition, the more the consumer determines the end product. Now that is all fine with me. I'm not really complaining but just observing. There are plenty of great sources of information elsewhere in the world - more than ever.
Hell, gimme a war and I'll watch TV news all day but the fuckin' pope dieing in his old age? Bah! I can understand everything I need to know about it in 5 minutes. A polish Pope lived a long time, never got caught with small children, did some good deeds, got old and finally died. Surely there will be a commemorative postage stamp. The only question is whether Topps will release some John Paul II cards.