Italian media put out bad info, and FOX jumped the gun.
The first reports, picked up by the state broadcaster RAI, said his electrocardiogram had gone flat. The ADNkronos news agency said monitoring showed his brain activity had halted.
The networks here ran with it. The fault, if any, is in Italy.
HNN jumped faster than Fox. I was watching Fox on one tv, nothing, switched to msnbc on another, nothing, cnn nothing, hnn had the Pope died. Switched back to Fox and then they announced it.