The death of Pope Francis and the pierced race for the media condolence

Every death of world leaders or large audiences, let alone the Death of Pope Francisset in motion one machine Always complex and versatile, not to say contradictory. The death of Pope Bergoglio is even more striking, beyond the owed human participation, emotional and religious, why reinforced to end From television, which at these moments further shows his primary role in everyone’s media name, and on social networks, depending on regret and, sometimes, deconstruction. This is especially the case in Italy, where the information was completely recorded by the news of the Vatican fall for 24 hours, while everything else is placed dramatic and symbolic in break. But what does he say about our way of communicating this race for papal condolence?

It all started on every morning, a Monday of the angel with a suspended atmosphere Between grilled and low -maintenance. The journalists were literally pulled down by the fatal news. “The news we never wanted to give“It was the continuous chorus of the early hours, even if those who know a little about journalistic work know that it is oneparadoxical expression For various reasons: which journalist would not be electrified by giving a news with such a universal scope? In an information mechanism that suddenly wakes up, one of the first is to communicate the death of the Pope Eleonora Danielein his Italian stories On RAI 1: the emphatic tone, the dramatic fractions and the excited sighs (and also a “Oh Cristo!“Pronounced by someone in the studio) suggests theElimination of a reality show More than a journalistic shipment.

Then they leave Extraordinary editions. Many newspapers especially online are in a hurry to underline how journalists have been broadcast They were rude and a little corrugatedtaken from the right enthusiasm to be as timely as possible. On a field day like yesterday’s, the make -up of information professionals, even if The make -up of a woman should never make news. Meanwhile, the usually automatism: The condolences of leaders around the world, the family of Bergoglio connects with Italy, his favorite fast food, etc. and again the population of television lounges by priests, pro-family, divers and injury.