Matt Drudge Really Is A Douchebag

Apparently, for 10 weeks Prince Harry had been deployed on the front lines of Afghanistan. The Royal Family brokered a deal with the British news outlets to keep the information under raps for fear that the enemy would target the Prince's unit simply to try and harm him particularly. News outlets new this information and sat on it for ten weeks. Why? Because there was no reason for anyone to know, and its release would inevitably bring increased danger to an already perilous group of British soldiers and to the Prince. And now Harry is home in Britain, yanked from Afghanistan to the envy of thousands of international soldiers, because Matt Drudge posted the news on his site.

I am a fan of The Drudge Report. I even have a link to his site on this very blog. I appreciate that Matt is the first to post news that other outlets pass on, and the first to put something controversial on his top line. I also like that he kills both Conservatives and Liberals, even though his site shows an obvious slant one way. But I don't like this move. There was no reason to post this news on the site other than to simply be the only person doing it. I am not a more informed person because I now know that Prince Harry was on the front lines. It is information for information;s sake, simply published to get publicity for his own site. And for someone who has built his (sketchy) reputation on posting news that people "need" to know, he missed the boat on this one.