Doesn’t Glenn have a “world changing exclusive, that will rock the foundations of the Republic, and send shivers down our spines” story, from 5 years ago, to get out?
Drudge owns the “world changing exclusive” category.
HOW TALES GET STARTED
Fast-track trade legislation and the Social Security trust fund may have trouble piercing the nation’s consciousness. But by last week, only the most media-starved Americans were unaware that Monica Lewinsky allegedly said she had saved a dress with the President’s semen on it. From where do such stories emerge? For the “sex dress,” as the tabloids dubbed it, the journey began in cyberspace ...
Jan. 21: Matt Drudge alleges in the DRUDGE REPORT that Lewinsky spoke of “a garment with Clinton’s dried semen”
Jan. 22: NBC’s TODAY SHOW lends Drudge credibility by letting him repeat his story to a national audience
Jan. 23: Jackie Judd, on ABC’s WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, gives the first mainstream-media report of the stained dress
Jan. 24: The story earns its tabloid stripes as the New York POST and DAILY NEWS play the dress on Page One
Jan. 25: Lewinsky’s attorney, William Ginsburg, says on MEET THE PRESS he knows of no such stained dress
Jan. 25: TIME and NEWSWEEK weigh in, both reporting that Lewinsky said of the stained dress, “I’ll never wash it again”
Jan. 29: CBS EVENING NEWS is the first to report that the FBI found no DNA or stains on any of Lewinsky’s clothes