What Brazil's newspapers are saying about the papal visit
What is Brazil's media saying about Pope Francis' visit to their country? Our correspondent
travelling with the Pope, Sean Patrick Lovett, sends this press review: Listen:
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full text of Sean Patrick Lovett's report: "All of Brazil’s major daily newspapers
are aglow with colourful coverage of Pope Francis’ arrival in Rio that overflows into
many of the inside pages as well. Here’s a taste… O Estado de S. Paulo leads with
a headline that quotes Pope Francis: “Lack of jobs risks creating a lost generation”.
Here are some of the other stories and their related titles: “Youth visit Sanctuary
of Aparecida before arriving in Rio”, “Pope speaks with gestures and reinforces the
preferential option for the poor”. Muck ink is dedicated to recounting the papal
traffic jam (“Pope Francis at risk amid the streets of Rio”) and to the demonstrations
outside the Governor’s Palace (“Clashes with police after Pope leaves palace”) – police
estimate there were about 1,500 demonstrators. Another curious side-bar claims that
56% of those registered for WYD are women. O Globo follows suit with pages of
articles and photographs of Pope Francis’ first day in Rio (“Pope attracts multitude
to the streets”) and dedicates several reports to the visit to Guanabara Palace (“Pope
avoids political tones”). It also reproduces the Pope’s first discourse in a full-page
article that is critical of both Pope and President (“Tepid speech” and “Nice picture,
not nice words”). Much is made of the security hiccup in central Rio during the
Pope’s drive-about: ”Pope-immobile” is the ironic title – “Pope left vulnerable” and
“Insane security” are those more serious and analytical. Meanwhile, back here
in the media centre, several Pope-watching journalists expressed their disappointment
that – outside of Brazil at least – so much of the papal arrival coverage had been
eclipsed by another arrival (the…baby of “you-know-who”)." SPL