Try this, go back and re-read, if you haven't already-and I will guess you have as you are an old timere here whose screen name is very familiar to me, anyway, to read the Drudge speech to the Washington Press corps in 1998. It's a whole new game and the styles and everything are different. Gone is the Dan Rather, Tom Bokaw, lockjawed Ralph Lauren talking head. To survive today you have to be EMO (as my 16 year old would say) to a degree because you are speaking to people who are now used to citizen reporters. It's just a whole new news gathering world with different conventions. IMHO V's wife.
Yeah - now it's some brain-damaged poop in a plastic poncho with a backwards baseball cap on his head, standing out in the storm while his cameraman is hunkered-down in a doorway.