Switzerland: Royal birth: Bear knocks royal baby off front page

by Thomas Stephens, swissinfo.ch
July 23, 2013 – 11:12

The Swiss media have reported the birth of Britain’s new prince, but without the feverish full-page coverage of their British counterparts, preferring local news more often than not.

Indeed readers of Der Bund in Bern pushed the baby right back to page 22. Its front-page photo and editorial focused on the news that a bear in the capital’s bear park was being deported to Bulgaria for anti-social behaviour.

Tabloid Blick, at the other end of the sensationalism spectrum, splashed a smiling Duchess of Cambridge on its front page, with the headline “A king for Kate!”.

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