February 04, 2005
The Drudge Report
Website of ersatz reporter Matt Drudge, the Drudge Report is a window on the news. Drudge essentially reads a lot of news websites and posts what he thinks is interesting. Drudge doesn't really do any reporting or news writing of his own, but he maintains contacts and can occasionally run a story before major news organizations. He had been popular in a small way among conservative readers for quite some time when he broke a significant portion of the Monica Lewinski story. He revealed on his website the existence of the now infamous blue dress and it's damning (and evidentially indictable but not convictable) physical evidence. He got the information from a contact in a TV news network that was considering not running the story. His site is important on two levels. First, he makes a convenient alternative source to what mainstream newspapers consider the major stories of the day. Drudge's site will carry things outlets like CNN and CBS would prefer not see the light of day or simply don't consider important. Secondly, he helps to force the mainstream news organs to acknowledge the existence of contrasting points of view and actually serves to make them better through competition.
The subject comes up simply because many of the news articles that get a link or a comment on this site will have come from the Drudge Report.
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Posted by: tanhua.net at February 5, 2005 05:28 AM
A stunning combination of sloth and ignorance. I don't frequently notice when comments come in because I've disabled the email notification I recieve for new comments. I've done this because we haven't completely fixed the comment spam problem we've had recently. I don't mean to ignore any comments but I do occasionally forget to check
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