The Pope Status (255kb, hence the hiding behind a link)
It's quite depressing to keep seeing - and it's been going for a few hours non-stop now - maybe the press is collectively waiting for him to snuff it, just so they can show their obituaries they've got prepared for his career. You can see the eagerness in the current newsreader's face: she's hoping he dies during her shift, so she can say to her grandkids that she was the one that announced this Pope was quite dead.
I also wanted to mess around with marquees, in making that animated picture. After thorough investigations into how to use them effectively, the only resolution I have is that marquees are annoying things to implement into pictures, and that people dislike reading them unless the scrolling speed is just right. Alas, I realise that after this extensive project of simulating BBC News 24's look.
Lots of people are making jokes (often cruel), and it angers me, because even if someone isn't Catholic or thinks the Pope is just some old fool, at the end of the day, he's a sweet old man who's dying. He leaves behind some larges shoes to be filled. About the media figures, I guess it's just their job. It's sad to see that kind of thing, especially when there are thousands of people who've been standing outside in St. Peter's square all day and night, crying and praying over it. Well, one can't expect everyone to care about everything. :)
Ours, we get maybe 1/5th of the screen actual people
IF WE ARE LUCKY, the rest factual tidbits we're supposed to swallow within 10 seconds.Like this. I really hope the off-site linking works.
But the picture was in general not covered with garbage like you have to suffer. You don't need news like that.
Harsh yeah, but I'm not christian. My great aunts in a state at presant. I'd rather be thinking of her then somebody famous, no matter how important he is to however many people at presant.
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I understand from a religious prospective why this news is so big, but in the grand scheme of things he is just a man and I think people need to remember that.
Yesterday Dean and I overhead a a man on his mobile in the train who was saying there should be an article saying that the Pope dies and then next to it, an article saying millions of people in Africa have just died of AIDS. Maybe that might put things into a little more perspective that there are much more intense, horrible things going on that we should recognise and not just shun because it happens every day.
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Im not saying those people from brazil that were murdered was any less tragic or deserved any less focus, but the millions around the world aren't going to have any real affinity with 30 anonymous south americans, not like they will with a man like the Pope.
There's the news people, do with it as you like.