AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE PRINCE HARRY SCOOP FOLLOWS PRINCE CHARLES TAMPON SCOOP
March 4th 2008 04:10
Australia’s cheesy women’s magazine, New Idea, has finally got the credit it probably doesn’t want for being the first to blow the whistle on Prince Harry fighting in Afghanistan, a report that ultimately got Harry sent home.
This follows New idea’s famous 1989 scoop on the notorious "tampon" telephone conversation between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles.
Kathy Marks, writing in the UK’s Independent, duly reported, “So it wasn't Matt Drudge after all who told the world, and the Taliban, that Prince Harry was fighting in Afghanistan. It was, bizarrely, an Australian weekly women's magazine.
“On January 7, the magazine broke the news that Prince Harry was serving in a combat zone in Afghanistan. ‘Maverick Prince Harry joined his regiment on a covert mission,’ it revealed.
The story was not followed up until a German newspaper ran it on Thursday, and the Drudge Report in the US then picked it up.
In the meantime, New Idea had itself run a second story on February 14, headlined ‘Prince Harry goes to war in Afghanistan.’
“Yesterday the magazine claimed that it had been unaware of a news blackout agreed to by British and some overseas media organisations.
“In a statement, it said, ‘New Idea was not issued with a press embargo and was unaware of the existence of one. We regret any issues the revelation of this story has caused.’”
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