U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report
TAGS: Justice Department, Drudge Report, U.S. Attorneys Office
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 5/15/09 3:52 PM EDT Text Size:

Massachusetts attorney's office tells workers to avoid the Drudge Report because of a potential virus. (The Site's creator, Matt Drudge is photographed here)Photo: AP




The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachus… Continue

UHH ...
Hey This Is NOT APPROPRIATE Matt Drudge

Contextual ads sure can be a bitch sometimes. So can regular, contracted ads that the website owner approves! But this is not to make light of the very terrible thing that did happen in Binghamton.


http://wonkette.com/407530/hey-this-is-not-appropriate… Continue

Can good design be ugly?

In a recent article on 37signals, a writer asked the question, “Can good design also be ugly?”

He’s referring to the Drudge Report, a news site that is loved (and hated) by millions. It’s one of the most popular and successful Web sites in the world. And it’s profoundly ugly.

The writer’s conclusion is that, yes, good design can be ugly. And I heartily agree.

He says th… Continue

washingtonpost.com's Politics Blog
Obama and the Transparency Trap


Has President-elect Barack Obama been transparent enough?

One of the most common -- and popular -- mantras during the campaign of President-elect Barack Obama was the call for more transparency in government -- an obvious rejection of the secrecy that often shrouded the administration of President George W. Bush.

And yet, that call for transparency often ran directly into a careful husbanding of information by Obama's… Continue

Matt Drudge disses Barack Obama.
Posted by Carlos C.closeAuthor: Carlos C. Name: Carlos Candelario

Nice.

Matt Drudge linked to Time’s new article about Barack Obama being the “Man of the Year”. Shocker, huh?

Well, check out the photo Drudge uses to “congratulate” Obama!

Is that a marijuana joint?

Also, what interests me more about this picture is that it is titl… Continue

Global Warming FraudPublished in December 10th, 2008
Posted by Berlet

DrudgeReport.com often pairs conflicting stories with the same admirable goal as Fox News’ motto of, “We report, you decide,” and unlike the liberal press approach of, “This is the truth, now shut up and do what you’re told!” This particular pairing is positively scary.

On the one hand, we have the AP story about global warming, “Thousands Negotiate New Climate Treaty,” http://www.livescience.com/environment/08… Continue

Hitwise News and Media Category Weekly Report 1

Top 10 News and Media Category Websites Ranked By US Market Share of Visits

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise ranks over 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including subdomains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subj… Continue

Andrew Keen: Obama’s landslide will throw up conservative bloggers

Monday, 10 November 2008

For the past few months my pre-breakfast morning ritual has been determined by American opinion polls. As a political junkie, the first thing I’ve done every morning over the last six months has been to check out the latest opinion polls at RealClearPolitics.com.


Then I’ve gone to Politico.com, FiveThirtyEight.com, CNN.com, News.Yahoo.com, and blogs like the HuffingtonPost.com, TheDailyDish.com and Dr… Continue

'08 SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations

Summary: Media critics have recently postulated that while Matt Drudge may have once set the media's agenda, his influence has waned and his efforts to inject himself in the media's coverage of the presidential election have largely fallen flat. This election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face or turned out to

… Continue

Branding - How one guy with a siren made his own brand
November 26, 2008

News Organizations have paid Advertising Agencies astronomical sums of money to get their brand name out there, but yet.. this 8.79 KB 125px × 125px animated, 4 frame GIF image has beat them out, both in ROI and branding.

The Drudge Report, by Matt Drudge has established a brand that puts fear and bliss in… Continue

Published: November 21, 2008
(Page 3 of 3)

CODE RED
By the end of the campaign, I was seeing the Drudge siren in my sleep. As people in politics know all too well, Matt Drudge, the Internet provocateur who runs the Drudge Report Web site, posts a flashing siren whenever he wants to alert readers to major campaign news or rumors. The siren haunted my dreams and was always in the corner of my eye — except when it was in plain sight, on my computer screen, signifying success o… Continue

Sweet: The story behind the Obama photo on Drudgereport.com
By Lynn Sweeton February 25, 2008 10:29 AM

WASHINGTON—Retired Air Force Gen. Scott Gration, who accompanied Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on his trip to Kenya in 2006, on Monday defended Obama’s trying on local garb over his clothes during a visit to the rural Wajir region in the country, a picture of which is at the top right now of the Drudge Report. LINK

Obama was merely being a “great guest,” Gration said.

The main story on the Drud… Continue

chapter one
DRUDGE MANIFESTO


DRUDGE MANIFESTO
By MATT DRUDGE with Julia Phillips
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Penguin Putnam Inc.

Dec. 24, 2000 - Late August—Mid-'90s—Early Lunch Hollywood




I'm splurging on a 39-cent taco on Vine Street when I learn I'm being sued by White House aide Sidney Blumenthal for $30,000,000.00.

Mel Karmazin's KFWB 980 newsradio's on my Walkman. LegacyMedia is fading, but I still monitor. Traffic and weather together on the ones. Get rich Get erect Get off commercials ar… Continue

DrudgeReportArchives.com

… Continue

How Drudge Changed the World of News
Posted Thursday January 18, 2007 07:00 AM ES

By David Rapp

The Drudge Report breaks the Monica Lewinsky story, January 1998.

Eight years ago today, on the morning of January 18, 1998, readers of the Drudge Report were treated to a brand-new experience: a major news story breaking on the Internet. According to the 31-yea… Continue

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DRUDGE REPORT




One of the things that has always frustrated me about the Drudge Report is its lack of an archive. Every month, millions of people read Matt Drudge's dispatches, but few of these dispatches ever remain on his site for more than a couple days or so. Imagine if great portions of the New York Times, or the Washington Post, or any other major news source t… Continue

By linking news sites, Matt Drudge created an Internet success.
Originally published in The Miami Herald on September 1, 2003

BY RICHARD PACHTER
rpachter@wordsonwords.com


Matt Drudge, Internet personality, is a self-styled seeker of the truth, specifically of hidden and obscured truths. If there's a Drudge brand he'd like to convey, it's of the relentless, rumpled, ever-vigilant newsman -- always connected and plugged into his network of operatives.

The truth is a bit less dramatic.… Continue

The Secrets of Drudge Inc.

How to set up a round-the-clock news site on a shoestring, bring in $3,500 a day, and still have time to lounge on the beach.

By Geoff Keighley
April 1, 2003

(Business 2.0) – Pound for pound, who's the biggest, richest media mogul on the Web? Terry Semel? Nope. Sumner Redstone? Not exactly. Try Matt Drudge. Years after his big "scoop"--leaking that Newsweek was sitting on a story about the tryst between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky--Drudge's website… Continue

Blumenthal v. Drudge and American Online, Inc.


UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Civil Action No. 97-1968

April 22, 1998

OPINION

This is a defamation case revolving around a statement published on the Internet by defendant Matt Drudge. On August 10, 1997, the following was available to all having access to the Internet:

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that top GOP operatives who feel there is a double-standard of only reporting republican shame believe they ar… Continue

Watching Matt Drudge

http://nymag.com/news/media/36617/

He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions.

By Philip Weiss Published Aug 27, 2007

Illustration by Darr… Continue