Playing the royal birth

I'm not sure I agree with this being a "celebrity story"

This is not the Kanye-Kardashian child. It's the future King of England.

 

I guess the guiding philosophies have changed over the past ... 14 months.

Royal wedding was lead A1 photo with story in NYT.




If the NYT passed the "real news" test today (they didn't, BTW), they sure as hell flunked the consistency test.

 

I thought The Onion played it about right, with photos and everything.

 

At some point, I guess, so many people are watching something that that becomes news in and unto itself - case in point being the royal wedding. The wedding was a televised event that people watched. I suspect that distinguished the two stories in the NYT's view. The birth was off-camera.

But explain how the birth is real news?

 

. . . . .who will wield about as much governing power in England as Kanye West's kid. It's a celebrity family.

 

The Onion has been killing it on this story.

Also, I hope everyone's shops did better than CNN did:

 

That is awesome.

 

He's the future King. It's a big deal.

Wait unit the Queen kicks the bucket and they have a King. Then wait until Charles kicks the bucket and the have a King they really like.

The coronation of Price William will make the 2012 Olympics look like a block party.

 

Why?

 

But I can see a high road approach for the Times burring this inside, but when you put Braun on A1, that sort of shoots that line of thought to shit.

 

Sports is a meritocracy. Major League Baseball is also an American entertainment industry with outposts generating business in every major and most mid-major American cities.

Royal family and Major League Baseball are not a one-to-one comparison.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-chief_of_the_British_Armed_Forces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_Royal_Family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_King


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