2013-07-23 15:17:22

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:
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"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








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