14 DAY TRIAL // The royal baby is here, as Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to a healthy baby boy yesterday afternoon. For journalists camped outside St Mary’s hospital in London, the hours Kate spent in labor were terrible.
BBC’s Simon McCoy’s live coverage is an example of that.
“Plenty more to come from here of course, none of it news, because that will come from Buckingham Palace. But that won’t stop us, we’ll see you later,” he says in a live update, as the video above shows.
Later on, when he went live again, he still had nothing significant to say, so he just read out emails from viewers. Ironically, they were critical of his live coverage.
So Simon ended with, “We’ll just wait and see, it could be tomorrow morning if all goes well today. Until then, we’re going to be speculating about this royal birth with no facts to hand at the moment.”
