Story behind Drudge’s Prince Harry ‘exclusive’
So you’ve likely heard by now that the Drudge Report outed Prince Harry’s 10-week tour in Afghanistan, which amazingly, the British press had agreed to keep secret all along. Now the NY Times published a story that reveals that Drudge wasn’t the first to break it. Way back on January 7th, an Australian magazine had the scoop. Then on February 27th, a German newspaper ran a small blurb. Oddly, nobody picked up on it until Drudge’s big flash. Also, while the U.S. newspapers didn’t know of the secret British deal to keep the story quiet, CNN, AP and Reuters all participated in the agreement.
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17 comments February 29th, 2008
