International News from EET

This is a fantastic op-ed piece about Prince Harry in Afghanistan, and how far media can go in order to put their almighty dollar first, even at the cost of risking people’s lives.

Some members of the notoriously cutthroat British press are up in arms about not knowing Harry was bearing arms in service of the realm. “The people have a right to know,” they scream, which perhaps is best translated as, “We didn’t get an exclusive, we didn’t get a scoop! We didn’t make a lot of money off of this!”

But certain media vultures, more interested in the impact of the story on their own reputations than upon the subject of the story, are angry that they didn’t get to wring every penny out of this story.

The people have a right to know? Don’t they also have a right to live? Doesn’t Prince Harry have the right to serve his country without the press increasing his personal peril? Don’t the soldiers stationed alongside Prince Harry have a right to the same? Do these protesting media outlets care about Prince Harry, or those other soldiers, as anything except news hooks?