LEMON: A show of support and attacks over the Pope's controversial position on condom use. Today, about 100 African Catholics gathered in St. Peter's Square backing the Pope's statement that condoms can aggravate the AIDS crisis. Well, the Pontiff made that comment during his recent trip to Africa. In the other corner, tens of thousands of critics of the Pope's stand have vented their fury on Facebook, pledging to send millions of condoms to the Vatican. And the British medical journal, "The Lancet," is urging the Pope to retract what it calls his wildly inaccurate statements. In case you haven't noticed, U.S. newspapers are folding at an alarming rate. Some are switching to online only. Others have pulled the plug completely. The "Rocky Mountain News" stopped its presses at the end of February after 150 years. The "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" fell right behind it and it's almost as old. Even some of the biggest newspapers and the most well-known papers in the country are bleeding red ink and might not survive. Here's what you guys are saying about all these stories including that one. This is sura_93. She says, "It would be a terrible loss to culture as a whole if newspaper were to die. It would be greatly missed." And Prophetess1015 says -- Prophetess, Prophetess1015. Stop laughing, Tom (ph). It looks weird on the prompter. We still need trained journalists to investigate stories, to report accurate news. Papers need help, but I'm tired of bailouts." A lot of us are. Tallh77 says, "No need to bail them out. They need to adapt to the new way of media communication." All right, those are your comments about newspapers. Possible death of newspapers. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, iReport.com, that's how you get to us. Keep in touch with friends, help catch crooks. Facebook can help you do both. A neighborhood crime is now solved, thanks to the popular Web site.
Blasting Pope on Condom Stance; Newspapers Stop the Presses