The Media Drop

There’s been quite a bit of buzz this weekend surrounding Prince Harry’s removal from Afghan deployment after that was “leaked,” as some are portraying it, on the Drudge Report on Thursday. Leak or not, some of the issues that have come up are surrounding the British ministry of defense having “urged the media to maintain a news blackout” in that country in return for some journalists having access to him while in Afghanistan right now.

This morning, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” had the Times‘ Washington Bureau Chief, Sarah Baxter, on to speak about the “deal” and what that looked like.

Howard Kurtz surprisingly doesn’t really push too hard on the “leak” issue regarding Drudge, and it seems that Baxter wasn’t exactly concerned about the “carrot” that was used to keep the British media quiet on what had been going on all along. Ethics issue, or are we all just making a big deal about this only because it’s about the prince?