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  Jillmz 9 months ago 1 point

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  Shaun - I totally agree with you. Has the public been any less well-served by not knowing where Harry has been? Why Drudge couldn't wait, except to get this attention makes me feel pangs of ick the way I do about Ann Coulter - just a simple, "Why?" why why why - because it is all about them.
  
  Again - it is so not news we need to survive. Why he felt so obligated, I will never understand. Is there in fact anything out from him that explain why he revealed the info? (I'm not a regular reader of his at all - for obvious reasons lol)
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  shaun 9 months ago 1 point

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  Jillmz:
  
  The really awful thing about Drudge blowing Harry's cover, as I well know from being around a war or three myself and having been obligated to keep a secret or three myself, is that it exposed his fellow troopers to increased risk. One thing that war correspondents NEVER do -- their cardinal rule, as it were -- is to make public information regarding sensitive troop locations.
  
  Drudge blew that rule because he is a self-aggrandizing, amoral, conscience-free weasel for whom getting attention -- which is to say getting paid -- is always paramount.
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  Slamfu 9 months ago 1 point

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  At first I was willing to join in bashing Drudge, but I never really cared for his site anyways. Then I thought, well, the Prince made the choice going into combat knowing full well the complications it would cause for those around him. I appreciate his sentiment and actions in putting himself on the line when as far as I can tell not many of our leaders have done so. Also, I find it hard to believe even with the added danger those serving alongside the Prince don't find it an honor. These are professional volunteer soldiers after all.
  
  Basically, I think its no big deal.
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  Idiosyncrat 9 months ago 1 point

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  Shaun, I have mixed feelings about this... Media silence is a judgment call, but not an obligation. As Jon Williams wrote in the link you provided:
  
  "In truth, the surprise is that the agreement lasted so long. We - and the other UK broadcasters - were clear that we would not report his deployment. But nor would we deceive our audiences."
  
  This is not to say that I don't think there are times and places the media should keep quiet. If you're embedded or otherwise given access to a situation you wouldn't be able to have without permission, you're obligated to not draw troop movements in the sand on TV in exchange for the privilege of such access.
  
  But that wasn't the case here. Should Drudge have kept his claptrap shut? Sure. But it wasn't going to happen, because he's Drudge and he had a juicy scoop. That's what Drudge does. And you know all too well that many of the other players out there who may try to get some bonus points by now taking the high road would have been only all too happy to run with such a scoop and reap the rewards of notoriety and additional eyeballs...
  
  In this day and age of pervasive media, the MOD was laughably naive to think that an agreement with a few British media outfits would be enough to keep this under wraps. I blame them for the security miscalculation.
  
  And the leak. Which of course begs the question, who leaked the story?
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  Andy 9 months ago 1 point

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  Drudge may have gotten tipped from an Australian tabloid that reported on this in January. More here.
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  pacatrue 9 months ago 1 point

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  The report this morning is that Harry's being pulled out already. His capture would be such a prize that widespread public knowledge of his presence clearly endangers his fellow soldiers. But no more, now that he's not able to serve in combat. I guess they could try to sneak him somewhere else for a few weeks until it's leaked again.
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  GeorgeSorwell 9 months ago 1 point

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  Imagine what would be happening now if this had been revealed by CBS!!
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  cosmoetica 9 months ago 1 point

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  So I take it this is Matt Drudge? Sorry, but a caption would have helped. Some of us are not tabloid freaks.
  
  And what exactly did he do?
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  DLS 9 months ago 1 point

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  Of course it's Drudge.
  
  Look at, and into, his eyes. Is he "driven," or rather, disturbed (and disturbing)?
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  superdestroyer 9 months ago 1 point

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  A hear hear for Prince Harry. I found it humorous that he is referred to as LT. Wales by his unit.
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  Cernig 9 months ago 1 point

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  Try a thought experiment. Replace "Harry Windsor" with,