Posted on 11/26/2020 7:51:24 AM PST by x
Matt Drudge Logs Off
The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self. Why?
It was the kind of story that would once have had Matt Drudge deploying font sizes that newspapers used to reserve for declarations of war. On Oct. 14, Twitter and Facebook blocked users from spreading a New York Post article alleging that Hunter Biden had brokered meetings between his father, then the vice president of the United States, and executives at a Ukrainian energy firm where the younger Biden held an $80,000-a-month sinecure. The Post’s article included photos of what appeared to be an exhausted and intoxicated-looking Biden in various states of undress.
Yet the controversy over tech companies restricting the spread of a story unflattering to the Democratic presidential contender was nowhere to be seen in the upper half of The Drudge Report—once the most coveted and agenda-setting real estate in right-of-center media. “RECORD TURNOUT ALARMS REPUBLICANS... BIDEN +7 GA,” screamed the top headlines on Oct. 15.
“People have noticed that Drudge has basically become a liberal site over the past two years,” a senior figure in conservative media told me that week.
“Liberal” might be a stretch, but it’s hard to argue with the claim that The Drudge Report has changed over the past few years. At the very least, it became an anti-Trump site. “YOU’RE FIRED!,” the top story on Drudge read on Nov. 7 when Joe Biden’s Electoral College win was first projected, appearing above a full page of links celebrating the former vice president’s victory—Drudge screenshotted the headline in a rare tweet that same day. During the campaign, the site had touted any and all bad news for Drudge’s once-preferred candidate and sometimes-host at the White House—a fact that didn’t go unnoticed by the Media Critic-in-Chief.
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If you find one, let me know. I am relegated to the ultra right. Free Republic is good commentary but there just aren’t that many nonPravda articles written and posted anymore. Many articles here are just crap control pieces like the ubiquitous Townhall.
The world is going dark.
I found Free Republic through Rush Limbaugh some 25+ years ago!!! I used to have WEB TV that was a LONG TIME AGO!!!
Thanks for the link. I am now trying it out. Still looking for something else though.
Yes he did! We got the Internet at work in the nineties and I was on a copyediting site where we were not supposed to discuss politics, but someone managed to get the news about Clinton and Monica into a copyediting question. LOL.
Who is he?
“He is a confused mess.”
He’s gay.
I await the day Drudge ACTUALLY signs off and the day FOX gets the plug pulled.
Found FR through Drudge.......during the Clinton impeachment. Have not visited his site in months.
WHO??.........;)
The vulnerabilities are usually obvious.
Something we’ve all hoped for, for a long time. Good...does not disappoint me.
Are you listening Fix News?
Bump
My guess is that this is not too far off the mark, except those visitors arrived with pictures that spoke for themselves and so they didn’t need to utter any threats. Sodomites, underage boys, etc.
I stopped ten years ago. All the incessant pop-ups were way too annoying.
I hope the folks at Twitter and Facebook are watching what happened to Drudge and FoxNews?
Think FNC, Lincoln Project, Never Trumpers, RINO’s. What’s new?
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Yep.
Drudge was the most anti-abortion person I can think of. No way he would support Biden just on that alone.
I don’t know what happened to him, but it is obvious he has had no oversight over his webpage for the last two years.
Drudge is worth at least 50 million. He is probably retired and living on the beach in Brazil or Thailand or similar foreign nation where no one knows who he is. Where he can indulge his gay proclivities. Living under a fake name.
I think he still owns the Drudge Report and it gives him a million or two dollars each year. But Drudge has nothing to do with it anymore. It is managed and produced by others. He could care less what is in it, just so long at it throws off profits to him.
BTW I never went much to the Drudge Report. Maybe 10 times in 22 years.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
https://www.worldviewreport.com
Another good one I just came across about an hour ago.
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