Beck seems to be stealing the techniques of Richard C. Hoaglund.
Drudge did a “shake the world’s foundations” ploy years ago. He hit on it for a while and then went silent. I got on his radio show and asked him what was up. He wouldn’t say other than “the story is still out there” (?) and I never heard another thing about it.
Stories are a dime a dozen
true stories are harder to come by
provable stories are a whole nother ball game