Media Spotlight I

The people's prince: with Harry in Afghanistan. Dog of war or PR pawn? (International)

This story is newsworthy even it is not one of our leaders and he is not even the first in line to be leader in Britain, but he is a prince who was fighting in the front lines of Afghanistan and that is heroic. If there is one thing everybody loves to hear about it is a hero. Nobody would have asked Harry to go to Afghanistan and fight in the war and they wouldn't have put him on the frontline if they did.

This article focuses on a different perception about the whole thing though and to tell you the truth I am torn. It brings up a valid point here. If you are a prince and you go and fight on the frontline with the troops, but the whole trip you are being followed around by a camera and photographer eventually you expect the newspapers to make the war about you. This should not be a war about any one single person. Knowing that, I am torn between the heroism of it all and the whole thing becoming more self-centered focus to be used effectively as a tool to fix some PR problems for the prince.

I can see the articles point of using this whole thing for PR repair, but hey what a way to fix it! Go Harry!