This morning, I picked up a Chicago Tribune and the Pope's death was front and center. Inside, 9 pages of the paper were dedicated to people's reactions to the pope along with other articles sprinkled through the rest of the paper.
Now, I'm not opposed to in-depth coverage of a major event like the death of the fourth-longest serving pope in history, but I did stop and wonder.
Where was all this space when voter fraud was being alleged in Ohio? Where was all this space when the Iraqi war started going sour? Where was all this space when it was shown the administration has been consistently lying to the public for years and years? Or when Abu Ghraib broke?
John Paul died not from violence but naturally, and his death did not come as a great surprise.
I guess my real question is not why so much for the Pope, but why so little for these other issues? And it's not just directed at the Tribune but at the media as a whole.