Posted on 07/31/2020 3:43:58 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Every journalist knows that a link from the Drudge Report is the ne plus ultra of online engagement, with the potential to send millions of pageviews to a single story.
But few reporters know much if anything about Matt Drudge, the press-shy media mogul behind the barebones news aggregation site he launched as a newsletter 25 years ago. Drudge, 53, has rarely been photographed, and he seldom speaks to the media. His last extensive interview, with Alex Jones, was just before President Donald Trumps election in 2016; he refused to appear on camera.
So it was no surprise that Drudge ignored Matthew Lysiaks repeated requests for an interview as Lysiak was working on a new biography: The Drudge Revolution: The Untold Story of How Talk Radio, Fox News, and a Gift Shop Clerk With an Internet Connection Took Down the Mainstream Media, which will be published on July 28. Lysiak, a former reporter for the Daily News, sent Drudge a billion emails and personally showed up at his properties in Florida and Arizona. He also sent certified letters.
Absolutely no response, Lysiak told Jewish Insider in a recent phone conversation from his home in Patagonia, Ariz.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishinsider.com ...
“There is something to be said about raking in $100,000s a year doing nothing but hiring some interns to generate witty headlines that link to other peoples work.”
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Drudge rakes in millions a year.
Maybe so. I had heard $400,000 a year but that was a long time ago.
LOL! I use to enjoy his radio show - it was on once a week, Sunday evenings.
I don't know what's happened to him recently.
He had a Sunday night talk show that had a following here on FR.
He’s making around $3,000,000 per month in ad revenue. He wants views and interaction.
Semrush has him ranked as the 735th most popular website in the USA.
I know Matt Drudge. I knew him back in his halcyon days, broke bread and had a few drinks along the way. He was an odd duck, even back in those days. I can’t imagine that he has become more sane over the years.
Matt Drudge?
Didn’t he used to be somebody?
Drudge’s Sunday night radio show was a lot of fun. It was like listening to Rush’s show but with emphasis on the cultural capital of Hollywood rather than the political capital of DC.
And this was 8 years ago:
“It’s Time People Realized That The Drudge Report Is A Major Media Property Worth Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars”
https://www.businessinsider.com/drudge-report-is-worth-2012-10
I guess I’m in the wrong business...
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