You could be getting the best stories in your inbox twice a day. Backstory: While others were publishing shade-throwing click-bait headlines about our 2016 performance, Matt Drudge went out, found & published the first independent 3rd party 2016 election polling bench-marking. During the 2004 US presidential campaign, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group made claims about John Kerry's war record, which were mentioned by Drudge and investigated by major newspapers and TV networks. While thats possible, the site was raking in plenty of cash before the change, with revenue estimates ranging from $9 million a year to $30 million. Of those, 32% were untrue, 36% were true and the remaining 32% were of debatable accuracy. This helped his web site traffic hit record high traffic levels. Other stories surrounding the main headline can be found in the upper left-hand side of the page and link to more specific articles dealing with aspects of the headline story. Crows And Lambs, Winfrey responded in a written statement to news outlets by saying, "The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. And now, Rasmussen Reports, an arguably reputable polling operation, is calling Drudge out on Twitter, even suggesting that the site has been sold. However, in recent months there was an evident shift in its coverage. Just another reason we miss his visionary media instincts-https://t.co/SYmGBVQiFe pic.twitter.com/xTZOXB3ria. 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Matt Drudge started his eponymous report in 1995 from this Los Angeles apartment. For years Matt Drudge has stood tall as Americas number one news aggregator. [70] In The Way To Win, a book written by Halperin and John Harris, Drudge is called "the Walter Cronkite of his era". The Rasmussen Report polling agency (the only polling company that accurately predicted the 2016 election) has evidence that they believe Drudge no longer operates and owns the site. Drudge is NOT a conservative site. [15] John Ziegler has said that Drudge blocked Breitbart from posting content critical of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign for the US presidency. In 2023, please consider contacting us. "[50] Professor Mark Liberman critiqued the statistical model used in this study on the basis that model assumed conservative politicians do not care about the ideological position of think tanks they cite, while liberal politicians do. Folks, the @DRUDGE_REPORT account is a FAN account. Baldy where actor Julian Sands went missing, Fauci, affirmative action, border: 2024 GOP hopeful takes on Trumps record, Princeton senior reveals the unintended consequences of leftism on campus, NYC mayor sees the light: When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools, Chinese national who defrauded taxpayer grants, spied on medical research nabbed by ICE, White House announces President Biden had cancerous skin lesion removed from chest during physical. https://t.co/NgvKOX1sMthttps://t.co/zTnz9VFu0Zhttps://t.co/1IizJ7Om4Dhttps://t.co/7Lspc3z9Hphttps://t.co/kQShsyPHCLhttps://t.co/XAWn1nCWiL, DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) November 27, 2019. Run by Matt Drudge with the help of Charles Hurt, the site consists mainly of links to stories from the United States and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events; it also has links to many columnists. visits to drudge 2/21/2021 019,307,264 past 24 hours 693,592,779 past 31 days 10,238,209,816 past year reference desk. Drudge is especially influential in conservative media circles, and has the ability to . His . has noticed an editorial shift at the site over the last year or so, with the aggregator regularly dropping the hammer on Trump, focusing on negative news about the presidentespecially as it relates to the Meuller report and impeachment proceedingsand increasingly linking to mainstream media outlets. News, Analysis and Opinion from POLITICO. If Matt Drudge sold out youll see one of the most trafficked websites in the world fall like a rock. We love hearing from our readers and invite you to join us for feedback and great conversation. Theres no sign of it changing, and so the question then becomes for me, why?. Your email address will not be published. [60][61][62] Drudge applied for and was granted a U.S. Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left. The site's design has seen few changes since its debut in 1997. The Drudge Report once cycled through 40-50 links in a single five-hour period. conservative journalist that was tired of being taken advantage of, Watch: Antifa Just Learned The Hard Way Dont Mess With Texas, Biden Already Steps In It: Forced To Walk Back Change After Controversial Decision Causes Outrage, Claims Inadvertent Edit, Biden Has Some Explaining To Do, Leaked Phone Call Has Just Landed Him In Hot Water, I Dont Plan On, Busted: Dem Senators Caught Oversees In Meeting With Iran To Undermine President Trump, The Biden Center Caught Concealing Massive Amounts Of Money Coming From China. The Drudge Report started in 1995 as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington, D.C. [11] Matt Drudge began the email-based newsletter from an apartment in Hollywood, California, using his connections with industry and media insiders to break stories, sometimes before they hit the mainstream media. [3] It was the first news source to break the ClintonLewinsky scandal to the public, after Newsweek decided to "kill the story". And growing. "[94][95][96] The Individual Rights Foundation, led by conservative activist David Horowitz, paid Drudge's legal fees in the Blumenthal lawsuit. FiveThirtyEight calculates a pro-Trump lean in Rasmussens polling of five points, meaning that the adjusted number in the new Rasmussen data would be 47/48 not bad at all by Trump standards. [99] After a paternity test using a sample of Clinton's DNA found on the dress belonging to Monica Lewinsky, a Star source told Time magazine that "there was no match, not even close. The whole kerfuffle appears to have begun at the end of November, when the Bongino Report, touted as a Trump-friendly alternative to Drudge, launched. Backstory: While others were publishing shade-throwing click-bait headlines about our 2016 performance, Matt Drudge went out, found & published the first independent 3rd party 2016 election polling bench-marking. As for Drudges actual Twitter account, its remained completely empty for over a year now: Nobody really knows for sure whats going on with him, though many have wondered. When no such source is available, either because the story is "developing",[33] with little known details at the time, or is an exclusive scoop, a special page is created on the Drudge Report servers, which contains text and sometimes images. But over the past several months, the website, named after its infamous and enigmatic founder MATT. Its not like Drudge doesnt cover positive news about Trump this snapshot of the site on January 15 is just one of many examples I found on the Wayback Machine: But Drudge has been especially keen in recent months to link to stories from left-wing MSM outlets that reflect poorly on President Trump in favor of well, now, thats the million-dollar question, isnt it? Meanwhile, a Drudge Report headline shouts RASMUSSEN: 43% want Trump Arrested Screen shot of Drudge Report headlines as of 5:10 pm today, 11 Jan 2021. If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. pic.twitter.com/E6FGhw4nze, Kirk Smith (@SavingAmerica4U) December 7, 2019. None of this is good for conservatives. [54][55] During the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump of 2019, the Drudge Report began aggregating what CNN Business called "an overwhelming amount of negative news for the Trump White House". Rasmussen Reports, the influential polling company, tweeted Saturday their belief that Matt Drudge has sold and is no longer running the titanic news aggregator that bears his name, the Drudge Report. Drudge Report sold out, suffered a massive 'nervous breakdown'. for presenting a dated photograph out of context to mislead readers. A few months ago the Rasmussen Report posted more evidence that Drudge sold the site or is no longer in charge of the content. But it has. Depending on the time you look at it, I mean, it makes it look like this country's finished, we're done, it's over. Spoiler Hope is not a plan. With a Disrn subscription you'll be able to: You must become a subscriber or login to view or post comments on this article. He sold out to the clicks back around the time Messiah Obama was inaugurated. be seen! Rumor has it that Matt Drudge isn't there any longer since he sold the site. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation. UPDATE 12/09/2019: Over the weekend Rasmussen put out the word that Matt Drudge may not even be at the Drudge Report anymore, that he sold his business. Like Townhall writer, Derek Hunter said, How Drudge works is a mystery. ", "Matt Drudge Hires Washington Times Columnist Charles Hurt", "Conservative media release old video of Obama in so-called 'explosive' exclusive", "Why This 'Obama Phone' Ad Is Misleading", "A Nation Challenged: The Media; Network Coverage a Target of Fire From Conservatives", "Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels", "Has Drudge Report lost its clout in the Trump camp? That likely had a purpose. 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He rarely speaks to media outlets at all and has grown more and. She was later asked to leave the group because of the hoax. Dan Bongino has the BonginoReport.com (boring so far), there is whatfinger.com, Liberty Daily, Gab Trends, PolitiPage . @Rasmussen_Poll We don't think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Except that instead of just publishing stories from left-wing mainstream establishment outlets, as Drudge (or whoevers taken over) seems to want to do these days, CFP also shares content from less established conservative outlets such asBizPac Review. According to them, not only are Drudges competitors taking over but theyre taking over precisely because he isnt even at the helm anymore. [112] The use of the photo was criticized by several commentators[by whom?] Matt Drudge and his web site The Drudge Report were paramount in countering media disinformation while Trump was running for office in 2016. Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 7, 2019. . Screen capture of the website Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com) on Dec. 18, 2019. [72], Matt Drudge has been criticized by other media news personalities: Bill O'Reilly twice called Drudge a "threat to democracy" in response to Drudge disclosing his book sales figures,[73] and Keith Olbermann referred to Drudge as "an idiot with a modem". The current ownership, strategy and outlook for the Drudge Report is held close as private information. The whole kerfuffle appears to have begun at the end of November, when the Bongino Report, touted as a Trump-friendly alternative to Drudge, The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its ownership and political leanings have recently been placed in question following business model changes in mid to late 2019. But others are! Miss you, Matt. So what's going on? Numerous aggregators have emerged, including The Liberty Daily, The Bongino Report,WhatFinger, Bad Blue News, etc. [104] Drudge was accused by some commentators of planting a false story for political ends. Thank you for donating. Backstory: Matt Drudge knows other pollsters have Likely Voters screens but dont spend the $$ required to keep them up year-round for political subjects. [92], On March 9, 2010, The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms claimed that the site was "responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the SenatePlease avoid using [this] site until the Senate resolves this issueThe Senate has been swamped the last couples [sic] days with this issue." A few months ago the Rasmussen Report posted more evidence that Drudge sold the site or is no longer in charge of the content. CFP is an aggregator just like The Drudge Report. He launched news aggregator The Drudge Report in 1995 and it is among the most highly trafficked news websites in the country. Politics Divided States of America? Oprah Winfrey's public statement came after she had already endorsed Barack Obama for president on Larry King Live in 2007. Rather than the broad impact posited by professional political observers, Wallsten found that, even on issues where the site should be expected to have its largest impact, the stories highlighted on the Drudge Report exert a fairly inconsistent influence over what traditional media outlets chose to cover. Under the headline, "Woman Names Bill Clinton Father Of Son In Shocking Video Confession", Drudge reported a videotaped "confession" by a former prostitute who claimed that her son was fathered by Bill Clinton. He had a good run, but according to unconfirmed reports, that run may be over. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Miranda Devine's LAPTOP FROM HELL for Tuesday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. The Drudge Report consistently competes and beats news sites like CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. We dont think Matt is there anymore, CFP. I've never witnessed such disrespect. We have no special knowledge of why The Drudge Report has changed so noticeably. Word is he sold, just wa. But in recent years, the site has become more or less indistinguishable from a standard mainline legacy media site. Whatever happened one thing is for sure, the Drudge Report has gone in another direction and it doesnt look like Matt Drudge is at the helm. be seen! In December of last year, conservative leaning polling outfit Rasmussen shared, but never confirmed, that they heard a rumor that Matt Drudge had sold the site. In September, Trump again slammed the site . A left-leaning[77] parody site called Drudge Retort was founded in 1998 as "a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style". be seen! What Drudge talks about Rush talks about and Hannity and Levin and Bongino and everyone else in the right-leaning media. [31] Jason Fried of Basecamp called it "one of the best designed sites on the web". Matt Drudge, a web pioneer who went live with his site in 1995, was seen as an important media champion of Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign. On Sunday the Rasmussen Report posted more evidence that Drudge sold the site or is no longer in charge of the content. Coupled with what Rasmussen Reports has claimed, it seems very possible that the answer to Rudells question is that Drudge did indeed sell and that whoevers now running the site aint a conservative. "[69], In 2006, Mark Halperin wrote that "Drudge's coverage affects the media's political coverage", effectively steering it towards what Halperin calls "the most salacious aspects of American politics". Trump goes after Drudge over rumors of 'mini-strokes' [75], In addition to its media influence, the Drudge Report has influenced design elements on other sites, some with opposing viewpoints[76] and some which use the same format for listing news. The news media are going easy on President Joe Biden, according to a majority of voters, who also think the problem of media bias is getting worse. It's entirely possible that Drudge is still the editor but is phoning it in. [51][52] The study was also criticized by media watchdog Spinwatch for its methodology and its authors' ties to conservative think tanks. I just sit there and hit the back button 10-20 times until the app finally shuts down, and then I can go back to read the next article. Headlines: Cop who Murdered Man in Front of School Got a Purple Heart; McCarthy Goes on Defense, Says Jan. 6 Footage Will Be Screened; Florida Bill Wants Bloggers Writing About DeSantis Must Register Drudge Report started distancing itself from the president last year, a development that was not lost on Mr. Trump, who said on Twitter in April: "I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long. According to a Daily Beast report last month (citing unnamed sources, because thats how they roll), Trump has been complaining about Drudge: Whats going on with Drudge? Trump has been asking allies since Democratic lawmakers launched the impeachment probe in late September, according to a person with knowledge of his private remarks. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Drudge Report site consists mainly of selected[24] hyperlinks to news websites all over the world, each link carrying a headline written by Drudge or his editors. Bongino taunted Drudge with a pair of tweets: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTED from Sharyl Attkisson, for Monday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. After all, the problem may simply be that he's just getting old and lacking in ideas. Congratulations to @dbongino https://t.co/9eTNfivkpD https://t.co/SuxuA6hUol, Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 7, 2019, Then on Saturday, Citizen Free Press, another conservative news aggregator, announced on Twitter that theyre the new Drudge Report. Rasmussen responded with a bombshell worthy of a great big Drudge siren: We dont think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 7, 2019 The Drudge Report is one of the most popular news sites on the web receiving over a billion page views per month and has historically been a conservative-leaning news aggregator and was openly pro-Trump. [66] This coincided with a near 30% decrease in traffic metrics for the Drudge website in the last months of 2019from a 90 day-ago ranking of #637 in global internet engagement as of July to #844 in December. [10], The Drudge Report started in 1995 as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington, D.C.[11] Matt Drudge began the email-based newsletter from an apartment in Hollywood, California, using his connections with industry and media insiders to break stories, sometimes before they hit the mainstream media. Published: December 8, 2019, 1:59 pm A Story Matt Drudge Would Crack: The NOQ Report noted over the weekend that the Drudge Report has lost almost a third of its regular visitors since the summer. Enjoy the REAL news at your fingertips. Apophenia is : "the tendency to perceive a connection or . Now that will be a story Back in August, Buzzfeed News mentioned Drudge was making major changes to his advertising. The page is now updated only once or twice a day and almost never But maybe not. The Drudge Report is one of the most popular news sites on the web receiving over a billion page views per month and has historically been a conservative-leaning news aggregator and was openly pro-Trump. [32] It consists of a banner headline and a number of other selected headlines in three columns in monospaced font. visits to drudge 2/06/2023 19,502,506 past 24 hours 681,343,125 past 31 days 8,507,517,286 past year We have no special knowledge of why The Drudge Report has changed so noticeably. BizPac Review is under attack by progressive Silicon Valley zealots. In recent weeks, Trump has even asked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a top White House officialwho has had a friendly relationship with the sites creatorto look into it and reach out to Drudge, the sources said. The Drudge Report consistently competes and beats news sites like CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. While Drudge may very well have made a turn to the left (or is holding some grudge against Trump) its just as likely that Matt is doing what he does best: playing the provocateur and stirring the pot. [9] The site consists mainly of links to news stories from other outlets about politics, entertainment, and current events; it also has links to many columnists. 34% Approve National Divorce, Voters Dont Trust Government on Ohio Train Disaster, Ukraine: 46% See War as Stalemate After a Year, Nikki Haley Leads Biden, But Trails Trump. Man, the Drudge page. Rasmussen Reports, the influential polling company, tweeted Saturday their belief that Matt Drudge has sold and is no longer running the titanic news A change of ownership would explain the websites move away from the right. california notice do not sell my info 10:29. I try not to check it, but its informative to see what narratives are being promoted to the mainstream. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. Drudge, and his soon to be famous site Drudge Report, achieved the impossible in 1998 and stunned the world when he broke the news about President Clinton's affair with an intern named Monica . Plausible, but is it true? Yet another reason Matt Drudge is missed.https://t.co/SAiXnqKc2F pic.twitter.com/NxR7OsRLRP. . Rasmussen Reports: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere If it's in the News, it's in our Polls. On Sunday the Rasmussen Report posted more evidence that Drudge sold the site or is no longer in charge of the content. The site has garnered much attention in recent months for a clear shift in coverage of the president, and its overall tone, seemingly turning against Trump and its historic conservative slant. However, in recent months there was an evident shift in its coverage. And to this day he still holds that record, or at least among the elites in politics and media. None have any insights into who Matt Drudge is as a person or what is happening with the clear negative slant the site has taken toward President Donald Trump, a man who was helped into the White House, in no small part, by the coverage of the Drudge Report.. Sign up for our daily email and get the stories everyone is talking about. Lately he has been absolutely terrible toward President Trump, conservative podcaster Josh Bernstein also said last month. Rasmussen Reports tweeted in response to Citizen Free Press asking the question, We dont think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Drudge has for more than a decade driven the media narrative on the right. [1][57] By 2020, some prominent conservatives including President Donald Trump had concluded that the Drudge Report had abandoned its conservative ideology, with Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson stating, "Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left. tweeted the polling company Rasmussen last December. Anyone who's been following Drudge for the last 25 years (!) Drudge retracted the story the next day and apologized, saying that he was given bad information, but Blumenthal filed a $30 million libel lawsuit, Blumenthal v. Drudge, in the District of Columbia. [35][36] Some had regarded the Drudge Report as conservative in tone,[37][38][39][40][41][42] and it has been referred to in the media as "a conservative news aggregator". [44] Peter Wallsten, writing in the Los Angeles Times, labeled Drudge a "well-known conservative warrior";[45] Saul Hansell, writing in The New York Times, referred to him as a "conservative muckraker";[46] and Glenn Greenwald was quoted in New York magazine in August 2007 as calling him a "right-wing hack". [43] In 2008, Richard Siklos, an editor of Fortune magazine, called the Drudge Report a "conservative bullhorn". [citation needed], Matt Drudge has said that he is a conservative, but "more of a populist". Ninja Foodi 10 In 1 Pressure Cooker Recipes, Voters overwhelmingly support releasing all videos of the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and a majority think its likely that government agents helped provoke the riot. ", "Drudge Report Used Photo Of Children In Syria To Depict U.S. Border Crisis", "The Drudge Report chose a very misleading photo for a child immigration story", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&oldid=1131862233, Articles with dead external links from February 2019, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2017, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from October 2022, Pages using Sister project links with default search, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 January 2023, at 03:10. [53], In 2015 and 2016, Drudge repeatedly featured pro-Trump headlines during the Republican Party presidential primaries, leading Salon and Politico to describe Drudge as "all in" for Trump. Many people keep asking me about this. As Politico put it, Drudge went "all in on Trump". His first assistant was Andrew Breitbart. Follow her on, Conservative Dan Bongino Launches Alternative to Drudge Gets Boosted by Mark Levin and Devin Nunes, According to a Daily Beast report last month, The FBI Targeted Patriotic Conservatives Exercising Their First Amendment Rights: Theyre All Bleeping Terrorists, Young Man Does His Own Taxes for First Time, Rage and Mirth Ensue.
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