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• 1. Darrien  |  February 29th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  All this cooperation makes me wary about the condition of the fourth estate…

• 2. discreet_chaos  |  March 1st, 2008 at 2:15 am

  It never fails to surprise me that people still read Drudge.

• 3. Dr Hackenbush  |  March 1st, 2008 at 5:38 am

  How long, one wonders, before it’s revealed that Harry was never actually there? I smell a ‘Capricorn One’ conspiracy.

• 4. Tom Planchet  |  March 1st, 2008 at 6:03 am

  I think there are news stories that need to be reported for their news value and those that are reported for sensationalism. Though it is a slippery slope, I don’t have a problem with news outlets withholding the prince’s front line duty. Is it really of ‘news’ value? Or just something to grab headlines?

  News outlets often make decisions for safety or other reasons like not publishing the names of rape victims or giving out certain addresses when not neccesary.

  There was nothing, in my opinion, to be lost by not ‘outing’ the prince.

• 5. Rico Suave  |  March 1st, 2008 at 6:19 am

  Now if the Bush girls were calling in airstrikes on Taliban strongholds…. nah, forget it.

• 6. Jim  |  March 1st, 2008 at 7:46 am

  Why shouldn’t the “forth estate” show some restraint. Harry obviously wanted to serve his country and there is really no news value to this. The new media decide what to feature and ignore every day. The purpose of the forth estate is not to be the fifth column.

• 7. tdc  |  March 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

  if our president, vp and sec. of state still need to fly into iraq under the cover of darkness (and a self-imposed news blackout) maybe the press ought to get off its horse and start telling the public what is really going on over there.

• 8. Anonymous  |  March 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm

  PS: You might get more traffic to the circuit if you had a feed of recent topics running down the side of the LR homepage.

• 9. kelly  |  March 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  I didn’t know Prince Harry had to go to afghanistan. Is this really true?

• 10. Media Glutton  |  March 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm

  I didn’t know Prince had 2 go 2 Afghanistan!

• 11. oakling  |  March 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm

  I’m not surprised that nobody noticed until it was on Drudge. I suspect that most of the people who would care aren’t reading German newspapers….

• 12. Tom Grunick  |  March 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Well, Harry came home. He came home on two feet. Meanwhile, while I was watching the “Breaking News” banner plastered on the screen of NBC’s “Today” on Friday which was due to Harry’s homecoming, I could not help but think more about a local soldier who also came home. However, he came home in a coffin. He died as the result of injuries sustained in a roadside bomb in Iraq.

  Of the two venues for the war on terror, do many other Americans believe that it is Iraq that is the deadlier of the two countries in which the war is being fought? Then again, it doesn’t matter; they’re both strife with danger.

  Last I checked, Harry is not an American citizen. Why wasn’t the “Today Show” airing a “Breaking News” banner of, “Townspeople come out in droves to support dead soldier?”

  Come on, we could have Meredith chatting it up with the locals on how the price of gasoline, which is going to be used by scores of cars in the funeral procession, and which is close to $3.30 a gallon. We could include a “Green” segment hosted by Natalie on how there might be waste from using headlights during the day as vehicles commute to and from the funeral. We could have Matt introduce a bit on the tradition of the 21-gun salute. Al could give the weather, and who knows, maybe he could host a segment during the third and fourth hour on how to cook certain meals for large groups of people in mourning. “Avoid red meat,” the bubbly faux meteorologist might say.

  Isn’t this the same Harry who was seen in a Nazi uniform? Am I wrong, but didn’t Harry say, “I don’t like England.” What, the London fog or the papparazi? Yes, his mum died due in some regards to being hounded by that dreaded papparazi, so is this a “make good” on the part of the press?

• 13. cee  |  March 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 am

  It never amazes me the jealously and venom people have towards Drudge. He has revolutionized internet news single handily. Anyone who has an issue with him is just being jealous or silly.

  Drudge is KING.

• 14. discreet_chaos  |  March 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm

  Cee - I’m not jealous of Matt Drudge. It’s that he uses a circa-1996 design to simply serve headlines from other news sources and I get the same thing from a good RSS reader, my.nytimes, my.yahoo or I could get most of the same links from a regular blog and that entry would have commentary, plus a place to comment.

• 15. Greg P.  |  March 2nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  Drudge is the dredges of journalism. If you want an example of how low the standards of journalism have become, just go to Drudges site.

  He epitomizes the state of tabloid journalism.

• 16. blackcloud  |  March 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 pm

  The Drudge Report far outscores most news Web sites when it comes to usability.

  It loads quickly, basically consists of one page, and has lots of links. No art department clutter.

  So people just click on it to see what’s new on it, then either click something interesting or go on to their next regular site.

  RSS readers require knack and know-how.

• 17. CBS3Philly  |  March 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 am

  There was no reason not to honor the British request for silence. What would have been the benefit of reporting the storu EXCEPT to make the Prince and is unit specific targets. This is also nothing new - everytime a high ranking US official goes to Iraq the American media keep it a secret. There was no news value in reporting that the Prince was there.

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