Ebbie,

Did you forget that this blanket media circus coverage of the pope is intended to manipulate our emotions so that we WILL respect this man in death, even though we may not have given him a bit of thought while he was alive, except to disagree with him?

Do you not see how emotionally manipulative the media coverage is, and that you came away from that special feeling just the way they wanted you to come away from it? Which means WANTING MORE COVERAGE. Hence, you stay stuck to the tube watching pope propaganda ad nauseum for weeks on end?

They were manipulating us last week with Terri Schiavo. Before that with the Scott Peterson trial. They need something to fit into the 24/7 perpetual news coverage of a non-story.

Why can't really intelligent people here tell when they are being emotionally manipulated by the media coverage of stuff like this?