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"The news is … there is no news." With those words, outside St Mary's Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC went viral on the internet. My somewhat testy response to standing in the street with nothing to say had struck a chord with many. Not for what I was saying but the way I was saying it. The slight annoyance that four decades of reporting from around the globe had led to this moment.