CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell delivered this evening’s newscast from Rome, and her interview with Pope Francis featured heavily within the newscast. But if the early tease is any indication, O’Donnell devoted the interview to the reheating of the media’s same old talking points regarding the Catholic Church.
Case in point: the media love Francis on climate change, and often hail him as a “progressive”. Watch as O’Donnell does both of these things:
NORAH O’DONNELL: Francis is also the first pontiff to make climate change a priority. In 2015, to make an important point, images of the environment were projected onto St. Peter’s Basilica, the dome designed in the mid-16th Century by Michelangelo. What do you say to the deniers of climate change?
POPE FRANCIS: There are people who are foolish, and foolish even if you show them…
