Friday, February 29, 2008

About Prince Harry

I'm sure it's no new news to y'all that he was in Afghanistan and the press was told to keep a lid on it, someone leaked and now he's been pulled out. Why can't the Royal Family be left alone about private matters?

I mean, seriously, it really did endanger him for everyone to know he was there - and it's impressive to say the least that he was, (recall the movie here in America where the guy goes around asking Congressmen or Senators or both about sending their children to Iraq and no one will discuss it...). Someone actually stands up, albiet for a war I think we're about 10,000 days late and God knows how many dollars short for, and a leader of the country, (or potential leader), fights right there with the rest of the people as a leader should and what happens - people exploit it.

I could exploit a lot of things I've run across in music journalism and political journalism but I have this little thing called Ethics that is apparantly a problem. Sad world when that's the case.

Fellow journalists I'm very dissappointed in you. Behaving that way is not freedom of the press, it is explotation of the noble.

And now of course the "Times" reports the aftermath: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3463459.ece death threats, peril, all kinds of jolly stuff that could have been easily avoided.

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