Using ContainerFilterByCategories with [not in] clause

Hi, I would like to know if there's a way for using
ContainerFilterByCategories for obtaining containers that are not in the
set of categories passed to the containerFilters: example: retrieving
all the newsContainer that are not in the category 'headlines'.
Is there eventually another way for achieving this goal so to have the
containerList prefiltered in the template / jsp ?
Thankyou very much, bye.