Mark Levin implies Drudge has become "the David Brock of the Internet" {Vanity}

Mark Levin Show | 11/1/2019 | MountainWalker

[RedMonqey]

Understand your meaning.
I feel that Drudge has slipped into the anti Trump narrative but as a news aggregate, I’d rather know what the enemy’s intelligence(or lack thereof) than pretend they don’t exist.

But links like the one I saw isn’t something I want my (pseudo)name associated with.

[MountainWalker]

I agree with you. I think people are just trying to explain away to themselves why a big ally in Trump’s election has now gone native. We can all speculate, but even Rush doesn’t seem to have the inside track so it’s a pretty pointless exercise. I’ve all but kicked the habit of clicking on his site, so he can go on being a low-tech Huffpo for all I care.

[silverleaf]

Right
Drudge suddenly switched his advertising to an agency registered just a month earlier ( record) and “ owned’ by the wife of a Google executive...a woman who never ran an ad agency and whose husband is not listed as an owner, so, well ..
His strategic shift in advertising is coincidentally tied to a drastic change in his content, so, well...

We all know advertisers have no influence on or ties to political ideology
Right
So, well... He had his own reasons

[Okeydoker]

Other stories indicate that the new ad agency is a long time family friend.

I know it’s hard not to believe but not everything in life is a giant conspiracy plot.

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I could use a tired metaphor and call Brock Drudge on steroids or turbocharged Drudge. What I'd be getting at is that Drudge is a representative case of an outsider getting assimilated to the world of the mainstream media, and David Brock is a more extreme case. Brock was more of an attack dog against the Clintons in the Nineties, and more of a lap dog for the Clintons since then. Drudge is tame and ordinary by comparison.

Drudge is an Internet guy who circulates what gets from the Internet on the Internet. His politics vary over time, but it doesn't seem like he's burned any bridges. Brock was going down to Arkansas in the Nineties to investigate Bill Clinton, and building a coordinated media operation for Hillary Clinton in the years since then. Quite a change.

[damper99]

Drudge is a good launch pad if you ultimate destination is Democratic Underground.

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Drudge is a good launch pad if you ultimate destination is Democratic Underground.

Drudge was the launch pad that got a lot of people here.

Drudge has preserved the world of 20 years ago, when people still cared what newspapers and columnists said.

The world has changed since then, and people only want to hear opinions that they already agree with. That's not entirely a good thing.

I don't go to Drudge much at all, and haven't for years, but I'm not going to fault him for giving people a variety of links representing different opinions.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Thanks for mentioning that. I think the fact that Drudgereport no longer has anything to do with Matt Drudge is lost on some FREEPERS for some reason.

On the other hand if you want to see what the mainstream media is pushing at a glance, it is worth a quick look now and then.

[minnesota_bound]

#37 Thanks for that link. Some of the other sites need to make the webpage easier on the eyes. The fonts used and colors or the 3 columns. Nice to know there are many options out there. Drudge has become disappointing.

[silverleaf]

But the advertisers in this specially created new agency with apparently only one client -Drudge- who are paying for the ads...are not friends.
Setting up a new ad agency and lining up advertisers who expect to reach a liberal audience ... was a business decision, , not an act of friendship.
Matt sold his soul.