Posted on 04/30/2020 2:42:12 PM PDT by Kevin in California
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Matt Drudge’s news aggregator, Drudge Report, was often called an “echo chamber” for Trump supporters. This wasn’t a fair assessment as the site would report on both good and bad for the President. Granted, even the “bad” stories were often from sources that spun the news in his favor, but he did not ignore the news like so many in mainstream media do today.
Fast forward to the anti-Trump phase of the Drudge Report and it really has become an echo chamber. Not only does the site publish anti-Trump stories while ignoring anything that could be construed as positive for him, it even ignores bombshells that go against the leftist narrative. Case-in-point: The recent bombshells about General Michael Flynn. Everyone’s talking about it… except Drudge.
The scandals surrounding the FBI’s investigation of Flynn are exactly the type of content one would expect to see on Drudge. Even left-leaning websites like Politico and Vox are talking about it. The news is THAT big and the revelations are THAT damning to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. It’s perfect fodder for Drudge… at least it would have been before the site became the progressive echo chamber it is today.
There are alternatives, as we’ve often discussed on NOQ Report. Our favorites are The Liberty Daily, Citizen Free Press, WhatFinger, Rantingly, and 63Red, but there are others. We’ve looked at Bongino Report and Gab Trends in the past as well and both show promise despite being newer. There’s simply no need for conservatives and Trump supporters to continue to visit Drudge Report. It’s a leftist haven now.
Whether Drudge has just “evolved” into a progressive or if he has always been one, it’s clear his site is not what it used to be. Some have speculated he was bought out, blackmailed, or both by the Chinese Communist Party, George Soros, or someone else who has a problem with President Trump. Either way, his site is no longer conservative-friendly and based on the limited public interactions he’s had over the past three years, neither is he.
If there was any doubt Drudge Report has sold out to the CCP or someone, the conspicuous silence about multiple Michael Flynn bombshells should dispel any lingering hope that Matt Drudge hasn’t gone to the dark side. He has. Pretending like the tragedy of Michael Flynn’s four-year ordeal isn’t worth reporting is downright despicable.
Several years of bombshells have yielded ZERO arrests, indictments, convictions.
leftist Drudge Report
this is also true.
I haven’t gone there in months. Is he covering the Biden/Tara Reade story??
I had not been to Drudge in months, but today, for the heck of it, I went there. Same old shit, will not be back for a few more months.
Drudge... Drudge... Isn’t that the site that specializes in animal abuse stories and sex robots? Seems I went there a few times and that seemed to be their focus.
Drudge in name only, it was sold to Google executives who now run the site. Drudge sold out for cash and the left wing nuts think they can fool enough people to believe their crap. Good luck with that.
I refuse to give even one click to Drudge anymore...and I used to go there every day.
For over 10 years I visited Drudge twice daily at a minimum. In the past 5 years I have visited less than a dozen times. Do what I did if you feel that his coverage is unfair.
I don’t think Drudge owns or runs it anymore, I heard he sold and it looks like CNN probably runs it now. I go to liberty daily........https://thelibertydaily.com/
Drudge sold out to Google years ago.
He takes his orders from his liberal overlords.
For years I went there just about every time I came up on line.
For the last few years I take a peek maybe once a month - Arrrg - and I’m gone.
Drudge sold it.
They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Yup... Drudge sold it to foreign entity. Probably the Chinese. Part of the sale included a non disclosure agreement. The reason for that is obvious, and it should be illegal to hide the ownership of such a media source.
Yes. I'll call it the DINO Report from now on.
So? Go AROUND Drudge. Disregard the site. Treat it as the nonentity that it is. We have to use our ability to disseminate important information through other channels while we still HAVE that ability. So an article doesn’t appear on Drudge? Big-effing-deal.
No one needs to seek Drudge’s permission, approval, or acknowledgment on anything. Not them, and not any other so-called “news” site.
Think of it as a way to exercise your rights AND your creativity. It might even turn out to be fun.
not a peep that I can see
Not a blip on CNN website either
Traffic has dropped roughly 60% since the sale.
Anyone who says Drudge is a leftist is just foolish.
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