Here's another view...about the same time?
Posted on 12/22/2007 3:13:48 PM PST by Zakeet
THE Second Amendment provides a good test of the American politician. If a candidate is not going to trust the people with guns, why should we trust said candidate with the government?
The equivalent test for journalists will be taken next month as the press marks the 10th anniversary of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky story.
How a newspaper or columnist describes this event tells a lot about how that newspaper or columnist views the audience.
I am not talking about whether it is described as presidential perjury or a sex scandal. That is a right-left spin thing that now has little relevance.
I mean how the story was broken - by Matt Drudge through his drudgereport.com.
The story did not break in "Newsweek," even though its reporter, Michael Isikoff, had the goods. His editors sat on his story.
Whoever shopped the story to Isikoff, then shopped it to Drudge, who posted it online. This made the Internet buzz, as people debated the subject in AOL chat rooms.
The Washington Post broke the story in the print media on Jan. 21, 1998.
On Jan. 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton wagged his finger and told a press conference: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Thus began one of the most entertaining years in American politics.
The lasting effect is what the scandal (readers may choose the adjective) did to the American press corps.
Overnight, a then-31-year-old former gift-shop clerk at CBS became the most important man in American journalism.
His Internet site averaged 85,000 unique visitors a day in 1997.
On Monday, 18.3 million people visited his site. That is more than all the people who watched ABC, CBS and NBC news combined that night.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...
Suppressing news that would show liberals or liberalism in a bad light is the MSM's job #1. It is how they "make a difference."
Long live Drudge.
Thank you, Matt Drudge, for making the MSM obsolete. And thank you for leading me to Free Republic in January 1998. I read the Drudge report, and then followed a link to the Free Republic.
I’ve been here since. I finally registered in March 2000.
“The story did not break in “Newsweek,” even though its reporter, Michael Isikoff, had the goods. His editors sat on his story.”
Speaks volumes about our media.
Here's another view...about the same time?
Another great read from Don Surber.
My God. She did all of them too?
I like Don, already!
Evan Thomas made Matt Drudge a multi-millionaire.
I think he gave it to Arafat.
And he's so slimy that he can still grin at us like we're fools and bounce around in public as though he's some kind of hero.
People who feel no shame for shameful acts are not worth a rotten bean.
Those who admire the shameless are worth even less.
“Thank you, Matt Drudge, for making the MSM obsolete. And thank you for leading me to Free Republic in January 1998. I read the Drudge report, and then followed a link to the Free Republic.I’ve been here since. I finally registered in March 2000.”
DITTO. I took the same route to FR, but I lurked a while longer than you. Thank you Drudge and thank you Free Republic!
I had to look twice, seeing your sign up date is 7/7/07.
New name, same old Freeper! ;^)
Merry Christmas, FRiend!
Matt Drudge, using a run of the mill PC with a dialup internet account and a single-page web site turned an entire multi-billion dollar industry on its ear, thus demonstrating the power of determination, resourcefulness and innovation coupled with productive information tools. His web site today is hardly more complicated than it was when he first started. I heard him once say on his syndicated radio that he only has one other, part time, employee.
Now it appears Matt’s greatest problem is that all his clickthrough fees come to his taxable income. No wonder he has moved to a state with no personal income tax.
Required reading from time to time...
http://www.libertyroundtable.org/library/essay.drudge.html
Anyone With A Modem Can Report On The World
Address Before the National Press Club
by Matt Drudge, June 2, 1998
and.....the relevance is hardly inconsequential as it is now accepted as fact that Bill Clinton was impeached for having a private sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The POTUS's lying under oath and other "minor" details like sexual harassment and banging the 'help' are no longer even mentioned!!
it'll never happen; unless the interviewer, wants to take a short evening walk in Ft. Marcy Park....what "($hrillary: we don't need no) freedom of the press".
it'll never happen; unless the interviewer, wants to take a short evening walk in Ft. Marcy Park....what "($hrillary: we don't need no) freedom of the press".
it'll never happen; unless the interviewer, wants to take a short evening walk in Ft. Marcy Park....what "($hrillary: we don't need no) freedom of the press".
it'll never happen; unless the interviewer, wants to take a short evening walk in Ft. Marcy Park....what "($hrillary: we don't need no) freedom of the press".
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