Pope Television-Coverage II

The new Pope has "thanked the media for their coverage." Thus we herald in the era of media-driven religious PR: the greatest accomplishment in Catholic Church over the last two years in America has been the removal of public scrutiny for the last 50 year-epidemic of sexual molestations that occured. With constant cable-news coverage and unending webcams, with the precisely timed release of all that tension over who will be the next Pope (and what a choice it was), what we've witnessed is a hodge-podge strategy of invaluable adverts for the Church. Free of charge of course- afterall, they are a charitable religious organization.

The more we've watched, the more we've forgotten. Strange inverse equation there, isn't it?

Viva la television!