oh heavens..I am as mystified as anyone why the coverage is so excessive (in my opinion) and the rituals are also excessive for an older president who has been dying for 10 years. But who is anyone here to say whose grief is or isn't real? Now we have grief police? I can certainly understand the Lady Di thing, and John Kennedy's death, in conjunction with other tragedies of his family. I don't understand the Reagan thing, except to say I probably seriously misunderestimated him. No one is going to stand in line for hours and hours to have fake grief I don't think........what emotions people have are real to them. The media could not manipulate this. I am sure their executives would far rather be running Taxi reruns etc.