Snapping the dead pope on a camera phone
‘They have come to pay their final respects, so is taking a mobile phone picture of the Pope’s body disrespectful or just a sign of how times changed during his 26-year papacy?
To some it is distasteful, inappropriate and plain disrespectful. To others it is recording an historic moment to share with those who cannot be there.
With mobile phones as advanced as they are, many people are routinely carrying cameras around with them in their pockets. So the sight of them and digital cameras being produced at events as momentous as the lying in state of Pope John Paul II may be of little surprise.’
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