POPE DIES: DEBATE OVER WHO'S NEXT

[globalvillage]

Actual headline now on CNN HN.
The media is really pushing the death thing, aren't they? Now they're debating over the next week-long death litany?
And freakin Nancy Grace's face is right above the headline.
I'm not implying anything, BTW. Just saying.

[beyurslf]

1. I will be so glad once he is buried and we can return to normal.

[alittlelark]

2. There is no more 'normal'

:-(

[dflprincess]

3. It won't be normal until the conclave is over and a new pope chosen

It looks to me like the cable networks are planning to cover that the same way they covered the 2004 election.

[Maple]

4. Well that won't be

until Friday. Then there is the election.

And of course Prince Rainier and Jerry Falwell and...

[Lucygirl]

5. And then...

Deep Throat, so they can finally reveal who he actually was.

Papa Rove is my guess.

[OneBlueSky]

6. there isn't a commentator on broadcast or cable "news" . . .

who is in any way informed enough about the whys and wherefores of the Vatican to offer any opinions about papal succession or the potential candidates to succeed John Paul II . . . but will that stop them? . . . of course not . . .