Is He or Isn't He

[Scott Fybush]

At 01:57 PM 4/1/2005 -0500, Bill O'Neill.. wrote:
>CNN Radio flashed Pope's death at 1330 and then Rush went with it, too.
>Then, CNN retracted it, claiming his heart was still beating.  Drudge got 
>caught up in that, too.
>Bill O'Neill

I was flipping channels and had Fox News on around the same time. They were 
carrying a news conference from Rome, and over the Italian of the news 
conference was clearly heard a producer yelling "Pope is dead! Pope is 
dead! Get me a line to the newsroom."

Then the backtracking began in earnest...

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