An English prince is being sent home from the only useful job he’s had in life (ie. something other than being a figurehead) thanks to the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge is famous for breaking stories, and made the wrong choice in revealing where the prince is serving in military deployment. British media, which is famous for messing up the most simple of secrets, had actually been keeping the embargo going for 10 weeks.
It was working too. I had no idea that Harry was in Afghanistan, and thought he had been deployed to Iraq. Apparently after his deployment to that country became known, he was not allowed to fight in Iraq lest he become a political target for assassination.
It appears to me that Matt Drudge decided that another moment of fame was worth more to him than the honourable career of another man. If it had been me who Drudge had ruined my job for, well, I certainly wouldn’t be sending any Christmas cards his way.
Aside from his apparently gross ego, Drudge isn’t all bad. He does have some pretty interesting news stories [like that one about Russia's new president] gathered now and then. And he doesn’t copy other peoples’ work and claim it is his own. Linking to other peoples’ work, doesn’t count as copying.
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Red Tory | 01-Mar-08 at 1:08 am | Permalink
I still say that Drudge is a douche and a hack.
Always has been.
p.s. Got my Gravatar working! (I needed to change the e-mail address I was using.)
Louise | 01-Mar-08 at 3:24 am | Permalink
Drudge did not break the story. All he does is link to stories. The credit for endangering Harry’s life and those around him goes to an Australian women’s magazine called New Idea. It is my hope that they are inundated with nasty letters to the editor and cancelled subscriptions. They have just painted a permanent target on poor Harry’s back.
Louise | 01-Mar-08 at 10:16 am | Permalink
Not that Drudge is off the hook, mind you. He took the story and spread it far further than a silly gossip mag from down under could ever do.
Saskboy | 01-Mar-08 at 11:42 am | Permalink
I hadn’t heard that someone else leaked it first. If so, the Drudge is off the hook to a great extent because if it’s online any place, that’s one place too much to chance that an enemy doesn’t read it.