Tacky.

I am slightly miffed at The Drudge Report. Yesterday, Matt Drudge broke the voluntary media silence about Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan and published a report on the Prince's deployment. Once the word was out, the story became big news, leading the British military to pull the Prince out of Afghanistan for obvious safety reasons.

Seriously. Tacky.

No one was adversely affected by being oblivious to the fact that Harry was in Afghanistan (except maybe the terrorists). The media, with the obvious exception of The Drudge Report, were actually acting fairly admirably in keeping the story to themselves.

I am not the only one who thinks Drudge made a serious faux pas.

According to the Telegraph, Wikipedia users expressed their displeasure by changing the wikipedia entry for the Drudge report to read "irresponsible and ill-advised 'news' website that has seen fit to put the lives of many soldiers at risk by publishing reports of Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan".

Shame on you Drudge Report. Tacky.