NBC Hypes Pope’s ‘Revolutionary’ and ‘Controversial’ Comments on Gays

NBC Hype: Pope's 'Revolutionary' Gay Comments 'Stunned the Catholic World'​ (Newsbusters)

At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams seized on Pope Francis expressing compassion toward gay people of faith and framed the comments as a major shift for the Catholic Church: "Making history. We're on the Pope's plane as he makes some stunning comments that sure sounded revolutionary..." 

Later introducing a report on the topic, Williams proclaimed: "To the journalists sitting in the back of his plane flying him back to the Vatican from Rio, the Pope's words today during a surprise airborne news conference seemed, if not revolutionary, certainly newsworthy and historic in terms of the Catholic Church."