The Pope has died, Spanish national television announces, at 21,37 today. I look at the clock on the wall and it is 10 past 10. What have then been doing all this time then, I wonder?
According to this channel many televisions from all over the world were present; this means that whoever was responsible for the announcement has left journalists who hoped patiently in the room conditioned to the effect without the news during half an hour. In the Spanish state chain, and under a socialist government in theory (the party currently in power has the word socialist in its name), it has been interrupting the programming every hour to connect with Rome, live just to ask about the situation of the Pope’s health and has been offering special programs about the figure of the Pope and about how every one is praying for him all over the world…
