Posted on 03/14/2013 11:53:30 AM PDT by eagleye85
If CNN’s coverage of the election of Pope Francis I on Wednesday afternoon is any indication, Jeff Zucker and his minions are not ready for prime time — or any time for that matter. I stopped counting the number of errors from CNN’s anchor team after three pages of notes. The following are only the most egregious:
• The network reported Francis is the first non-European pontiff in the history of the church. Well, how about modern-day history? St. Peter, the first pope, came from near the Sea of Galilee. A number of early pontiffs came from Africa and Asia.
• Anchor Chris Cuomo recounted how two cardinals’ mothers did not want their sons to become pope. “Everyone’s mother — Catholic or not — wants their son to be pope,” Mr. Cuomo intoned. Well, one thing a pope has to be is Catholic.
• Mr. Cuomo, a recent Zucker hire lured away from ABC, also observed that the crowd had spilled out from St. Peter's Square to the “Road of Consolation.” It’s called Via della Conciliazione, which means the Road of Conciliation. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Another problem is that unless the Pope is already dead and Francis II has been elected, he is just Francis.
Its like calling yourself “Senior” before you have kids.
John Paul I officially used the "I". But maybe that's bad luck.
CNN makes errors???????
Can they do anything but make errors?
Count the things that CNN gets right, it’s easier that way - whole lot less counting.
Mr. Harper seems to believe CNN has a reputation for correct reporting. When did that happen?
It sure was for him.
One problem with the article is that Peter was never a pope. In the first two centuries the head of the Church in Rome was a bishop. The first bishop of Rome was Linus. In the second century the term pope started being used to denote a head of the patriarchate of which there were five around the Mediterranean.
Too complicated for me......I am still trying to figure out why Obama wasn’t elected Pope,
Is Chris Cuomo any relation to the NY political Cuomos?
dimes to donuts...
CNN captioned a picture of the white smoke coming from a
“makeshift” chimney. What buttheads.
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