‘Poor, not Prince merit coverage’
NZPA-Reuter Moscow A Soviet newspaper has scorned the attention paid to the baby Prince William in the British press and has said the news media should look instead at the poor masses “who do not have a little silver boomerang to play with." Commenting on a photographing session in London last month at which Prince Charles and Princess Diana presented their six-month-old son. the youth daily, “Komsomolskaya Pravda,” said it was sickening how much fuss had been made of this “historic event.”
Television newsreaders had commente' ) on the event with tears in their eyes and such sweetness “that if you sat close enough to the television you did not need sugar in your tea," the newspaper said.
Prince William had turned out to be a normal, if rather well fed baby, but the press had produced headlines based on such trifles as the colour: of his hair.
“After this meeting with the press, the nation could sleep peacefully — that is, as long as they had somewhere to sleep," the newspaper said.
bridges, and said the coverage of the young Prince was intended to divert attention from such problems.
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