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The New Republic has a gossipy article about Internet newshound Matt Drudge's penchant for privacy:

My guess is Drudge has a no greater penchant for privacy than any other reporter. It's just that since Drudge doesn't always run with their herd he has a target on his back.

[al baby]

He’s gay so what. I just miss the siren at his site he does not use it very often anymore

[ErnBatavia]

He’s probably dating Shepard Smith.

[domenad]

Matt Drudge realizes the same crap reporting techniques that left the way open for him to become #1 will be used in reporting about him. Why wouldn’t he dodge the press? You guys SUCK, mainstream media. You suck. You’re going broke, and Matt is herniating disc after disc carrying bags of gold bullion to the bank. If he needed another reason to avoid you, it might just be that he’s filthy stinking rich and you’ll all be looking in the gutters for cigarette butts within a few years.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

When he’s scooped thousands of paid journalists and has more readers than just about any local newspaper or TV station of course he’s going to be targeted.

I’m just waiting for the day media becomes so cannibalistic that reporting on anchors and other reporters is newsworthy.

Drudge knows any detail of his life is newsworthy to traditional outlets because he isn’t “one of them”. They would love to break the internet dude who has ruined life in the bubble.

[meandog]

I really could care less about Matt Drudge's sexual proclivities. I only care that he provides a timely and valuable service to persons seeking information and current events. I do believe, however, if he is demanding privacy then he is in the wrong business. He is a public figure, pure and simple and therefore subjected to Times vs. Sullivan.

[day10]

[Glenn]

Drudge is merely an annoying side effect of the Internet.

He hasn’t done anything interesting since “the dress”.

And he is fair game for anyone who wants to investigate or speculate on him.

[Ben Mugged]

What goes around, comes around.

[golf lover]

All we heard from the mass media about that whoremaster Clinton was that it’s his private life. As long as it didn’t affect job performance almost anything goes. Do we have a double standard here?

[NC28203]

>>>Those who know him say that part of the reason he has disappeared from public view is that he is so bothered by the media’s prurient interest in his personal life

Kind of ironic since a good portion of his web site is stories related to other peoples’ public lives.

[tubebender]

My News source is FReeRepublic.com...

[Wuli]

Someone at the zero-readership New Republic rag needed to fill some empty columns of print and needed to attract some badly needed readers - Drudge made a convenient target and one that would get attention. That is the state of the fourth estate. Anyone who thinks it’s about “an informed citizenry” is a believer of myths.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Why don’t you guys leave him alone?

He is doing his job and does it well! He is entitled to his privacy. Whether he wants to go public or not is entirely up to him!

It doesn’t make any difference to me as long he does his job!

[Dr. Sivana]

Actually, when someone DOES print something prurient about him, Drudge puts it on his own site with the siren. It's a form of self-innoculation.

Reference

I will never forget the siren banner: "Matt Drudge Has Sex with Eggs"

At the end of the report he points out that he was in an entirely different state at the time the acts in the article were supposed to have taken place.

Drudge is not concerned about his reputation in the ordinary way. That's why he cannot be easily taken down.

IF he has deviant inclinations, you'd think he'd get a "beard" to disguise them.

I'm of the mind that it's more like the old excuse that Superman always had for not marrying Lois Lane. It would put her life in peril. That, combined with a preference for seclusion, cats and doing things his way that would really annoy most women.