And that would make Newsweek?
Drudge does seem more negative and anti-everything.
I’ve probably been to Drudge’s butt-ugly site 5 times in my life.
this Isik—whatever has had an edge sometime?
Funny. The same can be said of Micheal Isikoff (not to mention Newspeak Magazine itself).
I think that’s true. I haven’t been there in ages.
The Drudge Report is the first site I go to every morning after my home page.
Have any of Isikoff’s recent stories gotten any more people killed?
Drudge has spent the last two years using his smelling salts to prevent swooning for Hussein, that’s why.
Let Drudge’s influence factor be “N”.
Then, the sum of ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, CNN, et al is equal to somewhere around N/20.
Hope the libs out there understand that since it actually took an assumption followed by some very simple math. Isikoff’ll get it - after around 5 minutes of intense study.
Drudge needs a scoop badly - he’s ten years past the first one.
He was excellent on radio - his satirical take on the vacuous celebrity and political culture was gold every week. The stories he chooses reflect this cynicism but it’s certainly easy to view him as a hype merchant and a Chicken Little especially on oil prices.
Sadly he has also embraced some dubious advertising and scripting techniques with popups, animations, etc. A good firewall is a must.
Drudge can go days at a time without adding new content these days. There’s no reason to go there, he’s not “breaking” anything.
Issikoff and his soon to permanently shut down Newsweek rag are huge factors in Drudge’s amazing success:
People want uncensored honest reporting, not Issikoff type fake news.
Drudge: 20 million + hits a day; 5 BILLION+ hits a year!!!!
Eat that, Issikoff, you envious loser!
I actually agree with Isikoff on something? Unbelievable!
Drudge last went out on a limb in the runup to election 2004 with the Alexandra Polier (John Kerry affair)scam.
Ever since that stunt failed miserably he seems to have been reduced to cut and paste links with a picture here or there.
It’s not much of a site and Matt has become even less of a factor since he stopped doing his weakly(yes, on purpose) radio show.
Drudge is making 7 large a year, what is Isikoff taking home?
I think Drudge is just as important today.
I don’t think his value is in finding the stories behind the scenes, such as Monica et al, but rather as a news editor that paints the news so differently than MSM that it is a must see. He takes everyone elses news, and displays it without the bias - no - without the liberal bias that plagues MSM. He finds the stories that MSM buries, and allows us to find them without having to scrub the news ourselves.
While I think Free Republic allows the same thing, it isn’t combined into a front page as Drudge is.
Sure I am bored with the Drudgereport sometimes, but I can think of no equal as news editors go for my desire for news.