I never understood how drudge could be so popular. I get the feeling all his traffic are fake
Drudge invented the idea of the internet news aggregate.
Not a huge fan of the website but I sure wish he would bring back the radio show
Here is a great aggregate
http://www.acsalaska.net/~lwh/news.htm
HOORAY Drudge
Citizen journalism BUMP!
ONE MAN, a former gift shop clerk.
I really, really hope this bugs the living hell out of them.
One year at the Columbia School of Journalism costs $85,000 and Drudge is EATING THEIR LUNCH..!
Drudgereport and Freerepublic are my first stops everyday for the last 10 years. Might not comment much, but always check out the news.
I like Drudge and check if frequently. Been doing that since 2004 at least.
When you see the “cheesy” rotating red & blue police light, you know something big is happening. ;-)
Twitter has taken over as the real time news source. Even Drudge uses it to post stories before he can update his website.
Maoften find that his sole act of changing news headlines to his own words improve the story vastly. often it adds a funny or insightful dimension.
I also find that his periodic posting of photos is highly meaningful and often has hidden meaning or makes for a double entendre.
sometimes he will post a photo for which there seems to be no story and then in one or two days there is a major story that makes the original photo much more meaningful.
In the early days of freeRepublic Matt was responsible for recruiting maybe 1/4 or one third of our total membership simply by giving one one tiny link to us.
In a couple cases I believe that we have influenced Matts reporting but it is unquestionable that he has had a huge impact on Free Republic.
Not many people realize that Matt appeared in person at the March for Justice a long time ago and he met many of our members.
I feel certain he drops in here from time to time.
I kinda feel like i’m from the Men in Black, i go to youtube to get obscure videos, unedited, often graphic, often uncensored. A recent unflattered cgi video from Tomo News about Trump was hilarious.
FR is where I get all my news. Everything posted on Drudge shows up on FR.
Guess I thought DRUDGE gets his news from other news gatherers, networks, etc.
I met Drudge at Free Republic events......twice
Yeah, but Drudge has too much spam. It has so much spam that his servers should be based out of Hawaii.
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I am by far not an Internet novice. And I find the Drudge website nearly impossible to follow. The format is arcane. If someone sends me a link or it is posted on FB (which actually is rare to see a Drudge link on FB) - if I click on the link to the Drudge headline - 99% of the time - the link does not take me to the story ... it takes me to some generic page where I have to search for the headline... So more often than not - I give up. I guess I just miss the point ... If information is not where a link says it to be — then it is easy for me (if the subject is important) to just google it ... Whatever Drudge is doing and that some many people find it wonderful - then fine.. but Drudge is mostly useless to me for reasons cited. If I click on a news link I want it to take me EXACTLY to the story - not some page filled with story notices and I have to look for the story... BTW — I use three different browsers and it is the same result regardless of browser... I am happy that Drudge has made it big for what does it do?
I still check out Drudge daily but it seems he takes weekends off (can’t blame him but the site suffers for it). He doesn’t break nearly as much news as he once did.
I liked it when he had a TV show also. He thought he would be the next Drew Pearson but it never worked out.