There are over 200 000 babies born each day globally. Besides the fact that it adds up to a lot of dirty nappies it does raise the question, why exactly is the world, and almost every media house, so obsessed with the royal baby?
There are over 200 000 babies born each day globally. Besides the fact that it adds up to a lot of dirty nappies it does raise the question, why exactly is the world, and almost every media house, so obsessed with the royal baby?
I am in favour of The Guardian's approach. Visitors to The Guardian’s website see a purple button in the top right hand corner which offers two options: Royalist and Non-Royalist.
The first option offers you a bundle of information about the baby and the second allows users to see everything else that is happening in the world and blocks out all royal baby news.
Of course, I took no time in opting for the Non-Royalist option.
Despite the fact I wasn’t interested, I couldn’t escape it. Thanks to Twitter, I received minute-by-minute updates about Kate’s labour, birth and the naming of the baby.
The Royal baby has succeeded in being mentioned over 1 million times in just 1 hour on Facebook. And of course, there have been thousands of entertaining Twitter posts.
My favourite is from a fake Twitter account for Prince Charles: “Camilla has been busily knitting baby clothes. The last thing one needs in another naked Royal in the newspapers #royalbaby.”
Another favourite, by @TVKev, “Any royal baby updates? It’s been accepted into Oxford University.”
For me, I couldn’t care less. All I have to say is thank goodness William and Kate had enough sense to refrain from going the route of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who named their daughter North West.
