Pope Francis: On The Media's 'A' List

Hearing the helicopters hover over my upper east side neighborhood in anticipation of the arrival tomorrow in NYC of Pope Francis, it's hard not to be taken with the command and control this one individual, and his PR consiglieres, have exerted over how he will be publicly perceived. Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Vladimir Putin: eat your hearts out! None of you holds a candle to the media clout that this (or any) Pontiff has.