You Know You've Got Their Attention When ...

... every little thing you do is headlined.

Pro: An attentive audience is, generally speaking, a receptive audience. This even applies to the section reserved for the press. Maybe they'll receive the Gospel while they're salivating for a scoop.

Con: Those who see you primarily as a celebrity — and their numbers are legion today — will see your very humanness as fair game for silly sport ... and report on you accordingly.  

DP

Comments

[Iris]

I think everyone seems to missing the actual motivation on the Holy Father’s manner of dress. It is not that he necessarily is into “fancy” dress, but he is into “tradition.” That which the Popes have used and worn through out the centuries of the church he is going to continue, with all its symbolism.

[Jim Lackey]

The pope's stumble last weekend was reported not because he's a "celebrity" or he's old or he wears a white cassock but because he's a world leader. You can bet that if President Bush stumbled on the steps from the Rose Garden, it would be reported on too.