Hey! Who's That Guy With Morris?

now i realize that there is a lot & i mean a lot of hoopla for the declining health of the pope. death is no fun, unless of course you listen to ozzy osbourne or some other death metal band enough times to convince you otherwise, but does there have to be so much attention focused on his death? considering the possibility that the pope might already be dead, dead for days & the vatican news agency is just feeding the public, reports as instructed by the holy father himself. think that sounds mishegas (crazy)? well then, how do you explain his condition described as going from bad to worse to grave to worse to bad to worse to grave to bad, etc. death doesn't happen that way. it comes sudden & swiftly & poof! life becomes lifeless, anyway, i think you get the point. why can't the press just focus on the good that he championed during his reign as the holy father? well, wait, i just realized what i just wrote. strike that! i now know that it will never happen like that, perhaps, because the press covering this event are nothing more than blood-thirsty vultures waiting for him to die, so they can run that carefully prepared & edited footage and put on those oh-so-rehearsed somber faces as they read the words spat out in front of their eyes ever so slowly. cnn & fox news immediately come to mind. the fact that the pope is dying, isn't news. it's just the way it's reported as such is. i have to hand it to those few brianiac editors & publishers who saw fit to compare the pope's declining health with the now late brain-dead vegetable poster girl terri schavio. what brillancy! what genuises! what a way to sell papers & stocks! the press today is not the press that i worked in over 10 years ago. sure we wrote stories . sure we made our deadlines & wrote cute & daring headlines, but it is nothing like the cut-throat style newspapers & television broadcasters use today. it's all hollywood, made to look like a neat little package that would go well as a side dessert with your thanksgiving turkey. it is easy to blame the press or media as some call "them," but they aren't all that terrible. it's the few bad apples trying to sell papers in the face of death that make it look bad for the rest of them/us. perhaps that's why i've given up reading newspapers & stopped viewing television & instead only watch my radio for the latest happening in the universe.