Posted on 02/28/2008 10:33:12 PM PST by bruinbirdman
This is funny. I like Drudge. I don’t know him but I think he’d laugh.
yitbos
Drudge is the closest player to what Walter Winchell was existing today.
Jack Anderson and his protege Jack Germond used to be the air apparent of Winchell.
This article seems to have been a hurry up piece because Drudge broke the Prince Harry Potter story. The Brits still don't know much about Matt (tv, radio shows).
yitbos
pingeroonie!
Is Drudge the world’s most powerful jounalist? Probably so. What other ‘individual’ journalist brings as many stories to the public’s attention as Drudge?
20 million+ visits per day and growing, probably eight or so million individual visitors per day. Then the stories he puts up are often picked up by talk radio hosts and television news. There’s a rock in the pond ripple effect to whatever he puts on his site.
And, he’s probably more powerful than most newspapers and magazines, and maybe even a few evening news broadcast.
Many Freepers found FR through Drudge's site.
I heard DougFromUpland reciting a limerick on George Putnam's radio program in LA. He mentioned his verses were posted at FR and that FR was linked at Drudge. Many moons ago.
yitbos
Matt is a little too close to Hillary for the reasons none dare whisper.
Drudge is garbage for outing Harry. imo
Drudge is the essence of what it is to be an American.
A wonderful Horatio Alger type story.
You got in.
Freepers like me. I arrived here by clicking on Drudge's "Whitewater" link.
The rest is history.
Regards
I am one of them. Too bad he doesn't link to us any longer.
That link didn’t stay around long. I always wondered why, Did Matt resent JimRobs sites rising influence. Friction with lucianne.com?
I never got it as the sites complement each other.
Regards
I gotta agree with you, breaking this story is pathetic.
Outing what? His three months tour almost done. Matt would have blew it had he published on December 2007. Hotair.com says it was actually leaked two months ago and then dutifully suppressed by the British media.
Drudge is absolutely brilliant. He manages to make the news unbiased while bringing down the MSM, (and a few politicians!)
And they think he is not a journalist! He is about as irrelevant as Rush, 20 million plus+, who else can say that?
“Drudge is garbage for outing Harry. imo”
On the other hand it could have saved Harry’s life.
It is obvious that he would be pulled from the operation
as soon as the cat was out of the bag.
No doubt the info would have been leaked anyway.
What Drudge did is nothing compared to what the MSM does
every day. This time, he just beat them to it by maybe 24 hours.
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