Sky News

[petesgrayz]

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.

[wellhungjock]

Yes and they have taken Saturday kitchen off BBC2!!!!!!!!

[malajusted1]

you can only watch it for half an hour then you have to change channel. they exhaust it to the point that it is no longer interesting

[jno]

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.

[netibiza]

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.

[luckyboy]

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...

[netibiza]

In a pickle I am too young at 60 to be a pope - and maybe the wrong sex(whatever I am) there aswell!! By the way the pope has parkinson's not alzheimers.

[netibiza]

In a pickle

Excuse me for imitating your style but I think its pretty good.  I don't think I'd really want a title - I am happy with being Mrs, and I'd look pretty stupid with a grand title living in this scrufffy little villa - hey anyway I am a se�ora!!

[slimfandango]

netibiza every time I read your posts a little bit of me thinks of you sitting on a terrace somewhere sipping your pina colada, casually answering AB questions. While I sit here contemplating the rain.

:-p

[netibiza]

slimfandango keep thinking those lovely thoughts - at most I drink a lemon shandy and come the summer its way too hot for me to be lolling anywhere - I visit Eastbourne

[netibiza]

Muy bien gracias se�ora in a pickle � y tu?

[southyorks]

They do this to make sure that they do kill time, dont 4get that they have 24 hours a day to kill and they needs to drag events on like this to do so. As a student if media i fully understand why they do this as it is hard to kill time.

[netibiza]

There you are In a pickle - living on this island I get sexes all muddled up - honestly thought you were female.  Apologies.

[jno]

Since the unfortunate (and possibly mythical) Pope Joan, there's a testicle tickler who checks the sex of the people chosen pope. Sorry, senoras, you don't qualify.

[jno]

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.