This is a prime example of how the internet has eclipsed the msm, overwhelmingly underscoring the incredible synergistic power, productivity inherent in technology, technological advances. Not just merely the application of Moore's Law, but what Moore's Law has wrought from both the macro-cosmic perspective in its effect on society, civilization, modernity and microcosmically as well with its impact on, for the individual, the ever-expanding control, empowerment over the realm, environment inhabited.
For what is technology, the purpose of technology but a tool, a tool to expand power, influence, over the environment to ultimate infinite control.
The Drudge Report recently announced that it has surpassed 1 billion pageviews per month. How many pageviews is that? It's about as many pageviews as The New York Times reportedly got per month as recently as a couple of years ago. The Drudge Report has 14.4 million US readers per month — only slightly fewer readers than The New York Times (16.4 million), per Quantcast.
In short, the Drudge Report is almost as big a digital media property as The New York Times.
That's absolutely staggering.
Why?
Because The New York Times is produced by ~1,200 journalists. The Drudge Report is produced by one.
Drudge reports page view including refresh.
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It’s more credible than the stupid face rook scam!
I go to Drudge at least 4-5 times a day.
Between him and Glenn Beck....I catch important news that the general media fails to pick up.
Not sure if it indicates anything other than people were really tired of the same old left wing propaganda they were getting from the NYT and other crap media. Drudge came along first and still does it better than most.
I’m less surprised that DR has grown to the point it has than I am people still read a hack job like the NYtimes.
Um....I don’t see how it’s valid to compare a website to it’s content providers.
Free Republic and Drudge off and on all day in between working. Add a few others for spice and that is my news for the day.
I met Drudge a number of years back when he was just getting started. Had a few drinks, dinner and a very enjoyable evening of discussions among a few like minded people.
No doubt that he was a smart fellow, but also very squirrely in a number of different ways. I would never have predicted this level of success, but it proves that it helps to be first, it helps to be persistent, and it helps to know where you want to go. Getting a job at the New York Times was never one of his goals.
I remember when he had just set up in his one room apartment in LA, his previous job having been running a newsstand in the lobby of his building (or maybe some other big downtown office building). I loved it! I could check out all the foreign newspapers that didn’t seem to have the same constraints as our prestige broadsheets. He hammered Bubba. I went to a high school reunion in DC in 1998 and told a classmate, who is a muckety-muck at the WAPO, that Drudge was my home page! He looked at m as if I had pissed on his shoes. I still stop by to see what Matt has picked to run at the top once or twice a day. $100mm? I guess I need to read the article to see how they figure that.
I guess I don’t understand how it’s propaganda.
Drudge runs a headline and then connects to the story, usually on the news site’s own website. Then he connects to the website of other online sites. He and his staff choose which stories to feature and write nothing but headlines.
All he does is expose what other news sites, columnists and bloggers say.
From a one-page website?
that’s some profit, I guess he gets a lot of clicks for just posting other people’s articles.
He must be thanking Monica and Newsweek every day.
Drudge started with a story about a blue dress - and about a President who was sexually harassing women. That's why Drudge has more power than the 1,2000 dem butt kissers at the New York Times. Drudge isn't a two bit whore for democrats - and the New York Times with all their beautiful writing are - two bit old lady whores.
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historical survivability.
No contest. Plague rats kill.
Not quite.
Without Drudge, Drudge is worthless. The value can’t be realized, its not a transferable asset.
Pretty much the same case that Limbaugh can’t sell Limbaugh for whatever it is his income stream would ostensibly be worth.
The NYT with its 1200 employees can be sold and the new owner can count on receiving its profits, should they ever again run profits that is.
If not for Drudge I might not have found freerepublic.
I believe that Thompson feller owns one that is likely worth at least a few million hisself.
don’t nobody tell him..
I wake up, brew coffee and look at the drudgereport.
Matt Drudge is THE original blogger, and holds his position by virtue of offering a superior product.
I hope he makes several billion dollars!
I don't click on most of his topics, but I always click on all the topics that interest me. He never fails to come up with at least one item I want more information on, every day.
As you don't even “read” his work, I have to ask why YOU would think your admittedly willfully ignorant personal opinions of his website might be of any real worth to anyone?
Poynter Institute tuition payer?
I bet you paid a lot of money for your “higher education” didn't you?
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I like Drudge and check it several times a day. I don’t understand the dollar figure on its possible worth. Yes, it has an ad on the top of the page, but my eye passes past it and I’ve never clicked in it or bought something via the ads. The report is only as good as it is with Matt at the helm, if he left in a buyout, any value would evaporate.
Hundreds of millions of times NEWSWEAK.