Pope-tastic numbers…
In the USA Today article Thousands seek tix to see pope in USA, the writer talks about the fact that in both N.Y and D.C, the venues selected to house the pope’s visit have been “sold out.” The article in effective in that it gives us most of the information around the pope’s visit. There are a few questions left unanswered such: as are these the only cities that he will be visiting? When will there be another visit?
The lede also begins with the two archdioceses. While this is clearly important, I believe that I would start the article with the number of ticket requests rather than the two archdioceses. Another important fact is that of the venues: Yankee Stadium and Nationals Park. I would most likely begin with the number of requests and the places that were filled to the brim.
Another interesting fact that wasn’t as stressed as I believe it could have been is that the archdiocese of Baltimore’s website was shut down due to all of the traffic; that just seems pretty unusual/unexpected to me.
