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Guardian website has an off button for royal baby coverage

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The Guardian in the U.K. realizes that a lot of its readers are hanging on every tidbit of news about the forthcoming child that would become third in line to the British throne— and that a lot of its readers also think it's all crap. So on the right hand side of the website home page, you can click "not a royalist" and the offending coverage will disappear.

Not that it's replaced by anything especially highbrow. Says Mediaite: "The articles in place of Kate Middleton’s mug are football roundups and comic book movie news, not exposés on the GCHQ or Martin Amis takedowns. Then again, if you don’t give a fig about royal succession, panelled storybooks are probably more down your dark alley. It’s not like you won’t pass by a newsstand later today and find out everything you don’t need to know anyway."


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