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March 3, 2008

Harry in Afghanistan: How the press reacted to the leak

By paulmcnally

With 63 pages of national press coverage on Friday alone, and more than 5,000 articles on Google News over the weekend, we thought it was only fair to give you a digest of how the nationals covered the story of its own voluntary news blackout.

The Independent says New Idea, the Australian magazine that broke the story of Prince Harry’s military service in Afghanistan, regretted publishing the story. It said it was “not issued with a press embargo and was unaware of the existence of one”.

The Times asks why Matt Drudge took so long to pick up the story. Prince Harry had been in Afghanistan for 10 weeks before the Drudge Report picked up the news.

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