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Drudge Report

May 07, 2023

The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge,[4] and run with the help of Charles Hurt[2] and Daniel Halper.[5] The site was generally regarded as a conservative[6][7][8] publication, though its ownership and political leanings have been questioned following business model changes in mid-to-late 2019.[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.

Drudge Report
Drudge homepage, 2017
Type of site
News site, blogging
Available inEnglish
OwnerMatt Drudge[1]
Created byMatt Drudge
EditorMatt Drudge, Charles Hurt[2]
URLdrudgereport.com
AdvertisingYes
RegistrationNo
Launched1995; 28 years ago (1995)
Hollywood, California, United States[3]
Current statusActive

The Drudge Report originated in 1995 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch.[3] It was the first news source to break the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to the public, after Newsweek decided to "kill the story".[10]

Origins

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. In its early days Drudge maintained the website from his home in Miami Beach, Florida, with help from assistants in story selection and headline writing. His first assistant was Andrew Breitbart.[12] Breitbart, who described himself as "Matt Drudge's bitch",[13] worked the afternoon shift at the Drudge Report,[14] at the same time as running his own website, Breitbart News, which provided a conservative perspective for people in the Los Angeles entertainment industry.[15] John Ziegler has said that Drudge blocked Breitbart from posting content critical of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign for the US presidency.[16]

In 2010, Drudge added former Washington Times columnist Joseph Curl to the Drudge Report staff.[17] In 2011, he added to the staff Charles Hurt, most recently the Washington bureau chief of the New York Post and a columnist for The Washington Times.[2] Curl, who served as morning shift editor, left the site in 2014 and, with Drudge's blessing, in January 2015 launched his own aggregator Right Read, for The Washington Times.[18]

Drudge, who began his website in 1997 as a supplement to his $10 per year e-mail newsletter,[19] received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 US presidential election. In 1998, Drudge made national waves when he broke the news that Newsweek magazine had information on an inappropriate relationship between "a White House intern" and President Bill Clinton—the Monica Lewinsky scandal—but was withholding publication.[20][21][22] After Drudge's report came out, Newsweek published the story.[23]

Content

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. The linked stories are generally hosted on the external websites of mainstream media outlets. It occasionally includes stories written by Drudge himself, usually two or three paragraphs in length. They generally concern a story about to be published in a major magazine or newspaper. Drudge occasionally publishes Nielsen, Arbitron, and BookScan ratings, or early election exit polls which are otherwise not made available to the public.

In April 2009, the Associated Press announced that it would be examining the fair use doctrine, used by sites like Google and the Drudge Report to justify the use of AP content without payment.[25]

On May 4, 2009, the US Attorney General's office issued a warning to employees in Massachusetts not to visit the Drudge Report and other sites because of malicious code contained in some of the advertising on the website.[26] In March 2010, antivirus company Avast! warned that advertising at the Drudge Report, The New York Times, Yahoo, Google, MySpace and other sites carried malware that could infect computers. "The most compromised ad delivery platforms were Yield Manager and Fimserve, but a number of smaller ad systems, including Myspace, were also found to be delivering malware on a lesser scale," said Avast Virus Labs.[27]

Design

The site's design has seen few changes since its debut in 1997. Drudge has experimented with temporary, relatively minor design tweaks, including using all black-and-white pictures for a period in August 2017[28] and using colored text for holidays instead of the standard black throughout the site's existence; in all cases, the basic layout remained consistent throughout its existence.[citation needed] It remains entirely written in unscripted HTML, with a mostly monochromatic color scheme of black boldface monospaced font text on a plain white background. The Drudge Report has been described by Cheryl Woodard, co-founder of PC, Macworld, PC World and Publish magazines, as "a big, haphazard mishmash of links and photos"[29] and by Dan Rahmel as "popular despite a plain appearance".[30] The Drudge Report website is simple and, according to Paul Armstrong of webwithoutwords.com, retro in feel.[31] Jason Fried of Basecamp called it "one of the best designed sites on the web".[32] It consists of a banner headline and a number of other selected headlines in three columns in monospaced font. Most link to an outside source, usually the online edition of a newspaper, which hosts the story. 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.

Stories on the site are ascribed different levels of importance, which Matt Drudge rates at his editorial discretion. The Report almost always holds one major story above the masthead logo, usually just one sentence hyperlinked to the most important story of the day. 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. The standard story, either the headline or links below the logo, is written in black. The majority of stories are laid out in three columns beneath the masthead; at the bottom of each column are various links: newspapers and magazines in the left column, columnists in the middle column, and a collection of wire service links and miscellaneous links to archives, e-mail, site stats, and a box to submit anonymous tips at the right. "Weather Action," a static page of links to weather data; and "Quake Sheet," with earthquake monitoring, each have their own hosted page on the Drudge Report servers. The newest stories and those Drudge considers most important are in red, all under a single major headline in large bold type. For especially important breaking stories, especially if they are still emerging, Drudge places art of a flashing red light on the screen.[34]

Although the site initially featured very few images, it is now usually illustrated with five or six photographs. Generally the images, like the linked headlines, are hotlinked from the servers of other news agencies.[citation needed]

Political leanings

Matt Drudge has said that he is a conservative, but "more of a populist".[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".[43] In 2008, Richard Siklos, an editor of Fortune magazine, called the Drudge Report a "conservative bullhorn".[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".[47]

Jesse Swick of The New Republic notes that the Drudge Report frequently links to stories that cast doubt upon global warming. "[Drudge] loves a press release from Senator Inhofe almost as much as he loves taking pot shots at Al Gore ... It's like flashing tasty images of popcorn and sodas between frames at movie theaters, only much less subtle."[48] Ben Shapiro wrote, "The American left can't restrict Internet usage or ban talk radio, so it de-legitimizes these news sources. Ripping alternative news sources as illegitimate is the left's only remaining option—it cannot compete with the right wing in the new media ... They call Matt Drudge a muckraker and a yellow journalist."[49]

A study in 2005 placed the Drudge Report "slightly left of center".[50] "One thing people should keep in mind is that our data for the Drudge Report was based almost entirely on the articles that the Drudge Report lists on other Web sites", said Timothy Groseclose, the head of the study. "Very little was based on the stories that Matt Drudge himself wrote. The fact that the Drudge Report appears left of center is merely a reflection of the overall bias of the media."[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.[51][52] The study was also criticized by media watchdog Spinwatch for its methodology and its authors' ties to conservative think tanks.[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.[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". CNN speculated that this meant there had been a falling out.[56] In 2019, Rasmussen Reports reported that Matt Drudge had sold the site and was no longer involved in its operations, which would also explain the change in editorial direction; however, that reporting was not confirmed.[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."[58] In 2020, Austrian social scientist Christian Fuchs of the University of Westminster described the Drudge Report as an alt-right website.[59]

Business model and viewership decline

Matt Drudge's business entity in Florida is a privately owned limited liability company called Digital, LLC.[60][61][62] Drudge applied for and was granted a U.S. Trademark registration for the phrase "Drudge Report" on January 15, 2019, filed on May 15, 2018.[63][64] The registration excludes the word "Report" from protection outside of the exact two-word phrase use and is for "standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color."

Revenue for the Drudge Report is driven by advertising that was managed for 20 years by Intermarkets, Inc. During the summer of 2019, after many years of being known for "changing nothing" about the website, Drudge advertising shifted to a new company by the name of Granite Cubed. The current ownership, strategy and outlook for the Drudge Report is held close as private information.[65]

In October 2019, the Drudge Report began linking to articles which were increasingly critical of Trump, reportedly the result of Drudge himself becoming "exasperated" by the president.[66] This coincided with a near 30% decrease in traffic metrics for the Drudge website in the last months of 2019—from a 90 day-ago ranking of #637 in global internet engagement as of July to #844 in December.[67] The site's readership briefly rebounded in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, but continued to decline to new record lows as the year went on.[68]

After a Comscore data report showing a year over year decline of 38 percent from August 2019 to August 2020, President Trump tweeted, "Such an honor! Drudge is down 40% plus since he became Fake News. Most importantly, he's bleeding profusely, and is no longer "hot". But others are! Lost ALL Trumpers."[69]

Influence

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".[70] In The Way To Win, a book written by Halperin and John Harris, Drudge is called "the Walter Cronkite of his era".[70][71] Democratic Party strategist Chris Lehane also said in 2006 "phones start ringing" whenever Drudge breaks a story, and Mark McKinnon, a former media advisor to George W. Bush, said that he checked the site 30–40 times per day.[70]

Wallsten analyzed the data derived from a detailed content analysis of print, broadcast and blog discussions during the last five weeks of the 2008 campaign. 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. Specifically, the time series analysis presented by Wallsten shows evidence of a "Drudge effect" on print and broadcast coverage for only five of the 10 political scandals that received the most attention on the Drudge Report between September 30 and November 3, 2008.[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".[74]

Drudge, along with his website, was labeled one of the "Top 10 anti-Barack Obama conservatives" by the US editor of The Daily Telegraph in February 2009.[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. A left-leaning[77] parody site called Drudge Retort was founded in 1998 as "a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style".[78][79][80] According to online analytics data for April 2010 from the Newspaper Marketing Agency, the Drudge Report was then—now over ten years ago—the number one site referrer for all online UK commercial newspaper websites.[81]

Notable stories

Monica Lewinsky scandal

The Drudge Report originally attained prominence when it was the first to report what came to be known as the Lewinsky scandal. It published the story on January 17, 1998, showing that Newsweek had turned down the story.[82]

Hillary Clinton for President

In October 2007, during the early months of the Democratic primary for the 2008 presidential campaign, the Drudge Report broke a story, "Queen of the Quarter: Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund-Raising Surge," and, "$27 Million, Sources Tell Drudge Report." The New York Times said, "Within minutes, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's fund-raising success was injected via Drudge into the day's political news on the Internet and cable television."[83]

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

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.[70] The book Unfit for Command: Swiftboat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry became a best-seller in part due to its promotion in the Drudge Report.

Obama photo

Drudge[84] published a photo of Barack Obama in Somali tribal dress on February 25, 2008,[85] and reported that the photo had been sent to him by a Clinton campaign staffer.[86] The publication of the photograph resulted in a brief war of words between the Clinton and Obama campaign organizations.

Prince Harry in Afghanistan

On February 28, 2008, Drudge published an article noting that Prince Harry was serving with his regiment in Afghanistan. Prince Harry was ten weeks into a front-line deployment in Afghanistan that was subject to a voluntary news blackout by the UK press.[87] The blackout was designed to protect Prince Harry and the men serving with him from being specifically targeted by the Taliban. An Australian weekly women's magazine New Idea had broken the story in January,[88] but it was not followed up at the time. The New Idea editors claimed ignorance of any news blackout.[89] Then a German newspaper Berliner Kurier published a short piece on February 28, also before Drudge.[90]

Drudge subsequently claimed the report as an exclusive. Chief of the General Staff Sir Richard Dannatt, professional head of the British Army, said: "I am very disappointed that foreign websites have decided to run this story without consulting us".[91] The Prince's tour of duty was prematurely ended, since his unit might have been targeted by large-scale suicide attacks intended to kill the Prince.[92]

U.S. Senate problems

On March 9, 2010, The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms claimed that the site was "responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate...Please avoid using [this] site until the Senate resolves this issue...The Senate has been swamped the last couples [sic] days with this issue." The Drudge Report countered stating that "it served more than 29 million pages Monday without an e-mail complaint about 'pop ups,' or the site serving 'viruses'."[93]

Controversial stories, errors and questions about sourcing

Exclusives

Research by the media magazine Brill's Content in 1998 cast doubt on the accuracy of the majority of the "exclusives" claimed by the Drudge Report. Of the 51 stories claimed as exclusives from January to September 1998, the magazine found that 31 (61%) were truly exclusive stories. Of those, 32% were untrue, 36% were true and the remaining 32% were of debatable accuracy.[22]

Sidney Blumenthal lawsuit

In 1997, the Drudge Report reported that incoming White House assistant Sidney Blumenthal may have been perpetrating domestic violence. 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. After four years, Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit, saying that the suit had cost him tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. He agreed to pay $2,500 to Drudge's Los Angeles attorney for travel costs, claiming that Drudge was "backed by unlimited funds from political supporters who use a tax-exempt foundation."[94][95][96] The Individual Rights Foundation, led by conservative activist David Horowitz, paid Drudge's legal fees in the Blumenthal lawsuit. Judge Paul Friedman, a Bill Clinton appointee, noted in the judgment that Drudge "is not a reporter, a journalist, or a newsgatherer. He is, as he admits himself, simply a purveyor of gossip."[97]

Alleged John Kerry intern scandal

During the 2004 presidential campaign, the Drudge Report ran a story in which general Wesley Clark claimed that the John Kerry campaign would implode over an intern affair. The Drudge Report reported that other news outlets were investigating the alleged affair, but removed it from the site shortly afterward when the other news outlets dropped their investigations.[98]

Alleged Bill Clinton illegitimate child

In 1999, the Drudge Report announced that it had viewed a videotape which was the basis of a Star magazine and Hard Copy story. 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.[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."[100] Drudge reported these findings in 1999, but during the 2016 presidential election Drudge revived the story that the child, Danney Williams, then a 30 year old man, really was Clinton's illegitimate son by twisting established facts.[101]

Alleged heckling of Republican senators by CNN reporter

On April 1, 2007, the Drudge Report cited an unnamed "official" source claiming that CNN reporter Michael Ware had "heckled" Republican senators McCain and Graham during a live press conference:[102]

An official at the press conference called Ware's conduct "outrageous," saying, "here you have two United States Senators in Baghdad giving first-hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments. I've never witnessed such disrespect. This guy is an activist not a reporter."

— Matthew Drudge, Drudge Report

However, a video hosted by Rawstory showed that Ware did not make a sound nor ask any question during the press conference.[103]

Oprah and Sarah Palin

On September 5, 2008, the Drudge Report reported that The Oprah Winfrey Show staffers were "sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin." Drudge said that he had obtained the information from an anonymous source. Winfrey responded in a written statement to news outlets by saying, "The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates." Oprah Winfrey's public statement came after she had already endorsed Barack Obama for president on Larry King Live in 2007.[104] Drudge was accused by some commentators of planting a false story for political ends.[105]

Ashley Todd attack hoax

On October 23, 2008, the Drudge Report published an unconfirmed exclusive story regarding Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old employee[106][107] of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) and John McCain volunteer who had allegedly been attacked by a black male for having a McCain sticker on her car in Pittsburgh. The story was reported without a link but as "developing", with the headline "Shock: McCain Volunteer Attacked and Mutilated in Pittsburgh – 'B' carved into 20 yr old Woman's Face."[108] The story set off a "storm of media attention"[106] and was repeated by some conservative bloggers and radio talk-show hosts, all citing the Drudge Report as their source. It was also reported in newspapers and on television around the world.[109] The story was confirmed to be a hoax perpetrated by Todd and, according to Talking Points Memo, spread to reporters by McCain's Pennsylvania communications director.[110]

The Drudge Report printed a retraction, including links to the news stories detailing that the attack had been a hoax, and that Todd had performed a similar "attack" on herself while volunteering in a local Ron Paul grassroots group. She was later asked to leave the group because of the hoax.

Birther conspiracy theories

The Drudge Report included some articles intimating that U.S. president Barack Obama was not an American citizen.[111]

Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign

On August 8, 2016, the Drudge Report displayed a photo depicting two men helping Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ascend a set of stairs during a campaign stop in South Carolina on February 27, 2016. Afterward, several Twitter accounts in support of Republican nominee Donald Trump used the photo with the hashtag #HillaryHealth.[112] The use of the photo was criticized by several commentators[by whom?] for presenting a dated photograph out of context to mislead readers.[113][114]

On October 3, 2016, the Drudge Report published an dubious claim that Bill Clinton had an illegitimate child named Danney Williams, an allegation that the site had reported as debunked in 1999 based on a Time magazine article.[115]

On December 30, 2016, an article listed on the Drudge Report accused the United States federal government of attempting to bring down its website with a denial-of-service attack.[116][117] Beginning roughly one week earlier, DDoS attacks had repeatedly taken the site offline for extended periods. Cybersecurity analysts speculated that the attack was on the scale of the 2016 Dyn cyberattack and suggested that only a small number of groups would have the ability to take down a highly trafficked site for extended lengths of time.[118]

The Drudge Report included articles about the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory,[119] as well as conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich.[120]

Conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting

In October 2017, Drudge Report included articles with conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.[121]

Immigration

In October 2017, the Drudge Report shared a dubious Breitbart News story claiming that an illegal alien caused the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.[122] The story was rebutted by the Sonoma County's sheriff department, which stated, "This is completely false, bad, wrong information that Breitbart started and is being put out into the public."[122]

In June 2018, the Drudge Report displayed a headline and photo pairing that some perceived as a suggestion that migrant children who had been separated from their parents were violent criminals. The photo was actually that of a group of Syrian children holding toy guns.[123][124][125]

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drudge, report, stylized, drudge, report, based, news, aggregation, website, founded, matt, drudge, with, help, charles, hurt, daniel, halper, site, generally, regarded, conservative, publication, though, ownership, political, leanings, have, been, questioned,. The Drudge Report stylized as DRUDGE REPORT is a U S based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge 4 and run with the help of Charles Hurt 2 and Daniel Halper 5 The site was generally regarded as a conservative 6 7 8 publication though its ownership and political leanings have been questioned following business model changes in mid to late 2019 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 Drudge ReportDrudge homepage 2017Type of siteNews site bloggingAvailable inEnglishOwnerMatt Drudge 1 Created byMatt DrudgeEditorMatt Drudge Charles Hurt 2 URLdrudgereport wbr comAdvertisingYesRegistrationNoLaunched1995 28 years ago 1995 Hollywood California United States 3 Current statusActiveThe Drudge Report originated in 1995 as a weekly subscriber based email dispatch 3 It was the first news source to break the Clinton Lewinsky scandal to the public after Newsweek decided to kill the story 10 Contents 1 Origins 2 Content 3 Design 4 Political leanings 5 Business model and viewership decline 6 Influence 7 Notable stories 7 1 Monica Lewinsky scandal 7 2 Hillary Clinton for President 7 3 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 7 4 Obama photo 7 5 Prince Harry in Afghanistan 7 6 U S Senate problems 8 Controversial stories errors and questions about sourcing 8 1 Exclusives 8 2 Sidney Blumenthal lawsuit 8 3 Alleged John Kerry intern scandal 8 4 Alleged Bill Clinton illegitimate child 8 5 Alleged heckling of Republican senators by CNN reporter 8 6 Oprah and Sarah Palin 8 7 Ashley Todd attack hoax 8 8 Birther conspiracy theories 8 9 Hillary Clinton s 2016 campaign 8 10 Conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting 8 11 Immigration 9 References 10 External linksOrigins EditThe 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 In its early days Drudge maintained the website from his home in Miami Beach Florida with help from assistants in story selection and headline writing His first assistant was Andrew Breitbart 12 Breitbart who described himself as Matt Drudge s bitch 13 worked the afternoon shift at the Drudge Report 14 at the same time as running his own website Breitbart News which provided a conservative perspective for people in the Los Angeles entertainment industry 15 John Ziegler has said that Drudge blocked Breitbart from posting content critical of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign for the US presidency 16 In 2010 Drudge added former Washington Times columnist Joseph Curl to the Drudge Report staff 17 In 2011 he added to the staff Charles Hurt most recently the Washington bureau chief of the New York Post and a columnist for The Washington Times 2 Curl who served as morning shift editor left the site in 2014 and with Drudge s blessing in January 2015 launched his own aggregator Right Read for The Washington Times 18 Drudge who began his website in 1997 as a supplement to his 10 per year e mail newsletter 19 received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole s running mate in the 1996 US presidential election In 1998 Drudge made national waves when he broke the news that Newsweek magazine had information on an inappropriate relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton the Monica Lewinsky scandal but was withholding publication 20 21 22 After Drudge s report came out Newsweek published the story 23 Content EditThe 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 The linked stories are generally hosted on the external websites of mainstream media outlets It occasionally includes stories written by Drudge himself usually two or three paragraphs in length They generally concern a story about to be published in a major magazine or newspaper Drudge occasionally publishes Nielsen Arbitron and BookScan ratings or early election exit polls which are otherwise not made available to the public In April 2009 the Associated Press announced that it would be examining the fair use doctrine used by sites like Google and the Drudge Report to justify the use of AP content without payment 25 On May 4 2009 the US Attorney General s office issued a warning to employees in Massachusetts not to visit the Drudge Report and other sites because of malicious code contained in some of the advertising on the website 26 In March 2010 antivirus company Avast warned that advertising at the Drudge Report The New York Times Yahoo Google MySpace and other sites carried malware that could infect computers The most compromised ad delivery platforms were Yield Manager and Fimserve but a number of smaller ad systems including Myspace were also found to be delivering malware on a lesser scale said Avast Virus Labs 27 Design EditThe site s design has seen few changes since its debut in 1997 Drudge has experimented with temporary relatively minor design tweaks including using all black and white pictures for a period in August 2017 28 and using colored text for holidays instead of the standard black throughout the site s existence in all cases the basic layout remained consistent throughout its existence citation needed It remains entirely written in unscripted HTML with a mostly monochromatic color scheme of black boldface monospaced font text on a plain white background The Drudge Report has been described by Cheryl Woodard co founder of PC Macworld PC World and Publish magazines as a big haphazard mishmash of links and photos 29 and by Dan Rahmel as popular despite a plain appearance 30 The Drudge Report website is simple and according to Paul Armstrong of webwithoutwords com retro in feel 31 Jason Fried of Basecamp called it one of the best designed sites on the web 32 It consists of a banner headline and a number of other selected headlines in three columns in monospaced font Most link to an outside source usually the online edition of a newspaper which hosts the story 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 Stories on the site are ascribed different levels of importance which Matt Drudge rates at his editorial discretion The Report almost always holds one major story above the masthead logo usually just one sentence hyperlinked to the most important story of the day 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 The standard story either the headline or links below the logo is written in black The majority of stories are laid out in three columns beneath the masthead at the bottom of each column are various links newspapers and magazines in the left column columnists in the middle column and a collection of wire service links and miscellaneous links to archives e mail site stats and a box to submit anonymous tips at the right Weather Action a static page of links to weather data and Quake Sheet with earthquake monitoring each have their own hosted page on the Drudge Report servers The newest stories and those Drudge considers most important are in red all under a single major headline in large bold type For especially important breaking stories especially if they are still emerging Drudge places art of a flashing red light on the screen 34 Although the site initially featured very few images it is now usually illustrated with five or six photographs Generally the images like the linked headlines are hotlinked from the servers of other news agencies citation needed Political leanings EditMatt Drudge has said that he is a conservative but more of a populist 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 43 In 2008 Richard Siklos an editor of Fortune magazine called the Drudge Report a conservative bullhorn 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 47 Jesse Swick of The New Republic notes that the Drudge Report frequently links to stories that cast doubt upon global warming Drudge loves a press release from Senator Inhofe almost as much as he loves taking pot shots at Al Gore It s like flashing tasty images of popcorn and sodas between frames at movie theaters only much less subtle 48 Ben Shapiro wrote The American left can t restrict Internet usage or ban talk radio so it de legitimizes these news sources Ripping alternative news sources as illegitimate is the left s only remaining option it cannot compete with the right wing in the new media They call Matt Drudge a muckraker and a yellow journalist 49 A study in 2005 placed the Drudge Report slightly left of center 50 One thing people should keep in mind is that our data for the Drudge Report was based almost entirely on the articles that the Drudge Report lists on other Web sites said Timothy Groseclose the head of the study Very little was based on the stories that Matt Drudge himself wrote The fact that the Drudge Report appears left of center is merely a reflection of the overall bias of the media 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 51 52 The study was also criticized by media watchdog Spinwatch for its methodology and its authors ties to conservative think tanks 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 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 CNN speculated that this meant there had been a falling out 56 In 2019 Rasmussen Reports reported that Matt Drudge had sold the site and was no longer involved in its operations which would also explain the change in editorial direction however that reporting was not confirmed 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 58 In 2020 Austrian social scientist Christian Fuchs of the University of Westminster described the Drudge Report as an alt right website 59 Business model and viewership decline EditMatt Drudge s business entity in Florida is a privately owned limited liability company called Digital LLC 60 61 62 Drudge applied for and was granted a U S Trademark registration for the phrase Drudge Report on January 15 2019 filed on May 15 2018 63 64 The registration excludes the word Report from protection outside of the exact two word phrase use and is for standard characters without claim to any particular font style size or color Revenue for the Drudge Report is driven by advertising that was managed for 20 years by Intermarkets Inc During the summer of 2019 after many years of being known for changing nothing about the website Drudge advertising shifted to a new company by the name of Granite Cubed The current ownership strategy and outlook for the Drudge Report is held close as private information 65 In October 2019 the Drudge Report began linking to articles which were increasingly critical of Trump reportedly the result of Drudge himself becoming exasperated by the president 66 This coincided with a near 30 decrease in traffic metrics for the Drudge website in the last months of 2019 from a 90 day ago ranking of 637 in global internet engagement as of July to 844 in December 67 The site s readership briefly rebounded in March 2020 as the COVID 19 pandemic escalated but continued to decline to new record lows as the year went on 68 After a Comscore data report showing a year over year decline of 38 percent from August 2019 to August 2020 President Trump tweeted Such an honor Drudge is down 40 plus since he became Fake News Most importantly he s bleeding profusely and is no longer hot But others are Lost ALL Trumpers 69 Influence EditIn 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 70 In The Way To Win a book written by Halperin and John Harris Drudge is called the Walter Cronkite of his era 70 71 Democratic Party strategist Chris Lehane also said in 2006 phones start ringing whenever Drudge breaks a story and Mark McKinnon a former media advisor to George W Bush said that he checked the site 30 40 times per day 70 Wallsten analyzed the data derived from a detailed content analysis of print broadcast and blog discussions during the last five weeks of the 2008 campaign 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 Specifically the time series analysis presented by Wallsten shows evidence of a Drudge effect on print and broadcast coverage for only five of the 10 political scandals that received the most attention on the Drudge Report between September 30 and November 3 2008 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 74 Drudge along with his website was labeled one of the Top 10 anti Barack Obama conservatives by the US editor of The Daily Telegraph in February 2009 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 A left leaning 77 parody site called Drudge Retort was founded in 1998 as a send up of Mr Drudge s breathless style 78 79 80 According to online analytics data for April 2010 from the Newspaper Marketing Agency the Drudge Report was then now over ten years ago the number one site referrer for all online UK commercial newspaper websites 81 Notable stories EditMonica Lewinsky scandal Edit The Drudge Report originally attained prominence when it was the first to report what came to be known as the Lewinsky scandal It published the story on January 17 1998 showing that Newsweek had turned down the story 82 Hillary Clinton for President Edit In October 2007 during the early months of the Democratic primary for the 2008 presidential campaign the Drudge Report broke a story Queen of the Quarter Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund Raising Surge and 27 Million Sources Tell Drudge Report The New York Times said Within minutes Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton s fund raising success was injected via Drudge into the day s political news on the Internet and cable television 83 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Edit 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 70 The book Unfit for Command Swiftboat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry became a best seller in part due to its promotion in the Drudge Report Obama photo Edit Drudge 84 published a photo of Barack Obama in Somali tribal dress on February 25 2008 85 and reported that the photo had been sent to him by a Clinton campaign staffer 86 The publication of the photograph resulted in a brief war of words between the Clinton and Obama campaign organizations Prince Harry in Afghanistan Edit On February 28 2008 Drudge published an article noting that Prince Harry was serving with his regiment in Afghanistan Prince Harry was ten weeks into a front line deployment in Afghanistan that was subject to a voluntary news blackout by the UK press 87 The blackout was designed to protect Prince Harry and the men serving with him from being specifically targeted by the Taliban An Australian weekly women s magazine New Idea had broken the story in January 88 but it was not followed up at the time The New Idea editors claimed ignorance of any news blackout 89 Then a German newspaper Berliner Kurier published a short piece on February 28 also before Drudge 90 Drudge subsequently claimed the report as an exclusive Chief of the General Staff Sir Richard Dannatt professional head of the British Army said I am very disappointed that foreign websites have decided to run this story without consulting us 91 The Prince s tour of duty was prematurely ended since his unit might have been targeted by large scale suicide attacks intended to kill the Prince 92 U S Senate problems Edit On March 9 2010 The Senate Sergeant at Arms claimed that the site was responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate Please avoid using this site until the Senate resolves this issue The Senate has been swamped the last couples sic days with this issue The Drudge Report countered stating that it served more than 29 million pages Monday without an e mail complaint about pop ups or the site serving viruses 93 Controversial stories errors and questions about sourcing EditExclusives Edit Research by the media magazine Brill s Content in 1998 cast doubt on the accuracy of the majority of the exclusives claimed by the Drudge Report Of the 51 stories claimed as exclusives from January to September 1998 the magazine found that 31 61 were truly exclusive stories Of those 32 were untrue 36 were true and the remaining 32 were of debatable accuracy 22 Sidney Blumenthal lawsuit Edit In 1997 the Drudge Report reported that incoming White House assistant Sidney Blumenthal may have been perpetrating domestic violence 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 After four years Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit saying that the suit had cost him tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees He agreed to pay 2 500 to Drudge s Los Angeles attorney for travel costs claiming that Drudge was backed by unlimited funds from political supporters who use a tax exempt foundation 94 95 96 The Individual Rights Foundation led by conservative activist David Horowitz paid Drudge s legal fees in the Blumenthal lawsuit Judge Paul Friedman a Bill Clinton appointee noted in the judgment that Drudge is not a reporter a journalist or a newsgatherer He is as he admits himself simply a purveyor of gossip 97 Alleged John Kerry intern scandal Edit During the 2004 presidential campaign the Drudge Report ran a story in which general Wesley Clark claimed that the John Kerry campaign would implode over an intern affair The Drudge Report reported that other news outlets were investigating the alleged affair but removed it from the site shortly afterward when the other news outlets dropped their investigations 98 Alleged Bill Clinton illegitimate child Edit In 1999 the Drudge Report announced that it had viewed a videotape which was the basis of a Star magazine and Hard Copy story 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 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 100 Drudge reported these findings in 1999 but during the 2016 presidential election Drudge revived the story that the child Danney Williams then a 30 year old man really was Clinton s illegitimate son by twisting established facts 101 Alleged heckling of Republican senators by CNN reporter Edit On April 1 2007 the Drudge Report cited an unnamed official source claiming that CNN reporter Michael Ware had heckled Republican senators McCain and Graham during a live press conference 102 An official at the press conference called Ware s conduct outrageous saying here you have two United States Senators in Baghdad giving first hand reports while Ware is laughing and mocking their comments I ve never witnessed such disrespect This guy is an activist not a reporter Matthew Drudge Drudge Report However a video hosted by Rawstory showed that Ware did not make a sound nor ask any question during the press conference 103 Oprah and Sarah Palin Edit On September 5 2008 the Drudge Report reported that The Oprah Winfrey Show staffers were sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin Drudge said that he had obtained the information from an anonymous source Winfrey responded in a written statement to news outlets by saying The item in today s Drudge Report is categorically untrue There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates Oprah Winfrey s public statement came after she had already endorsed Barack Obama for president on Larry King Live in 2007 104 Drudge was accused by some commentators of planting a false story for political ends 105 Ashley Todd attack hoax Edit On October 23 2008 the Drudge Report published an unconfirmed exclusive story regarding Ashley Todd a 20 year old employee 106 107 of the College Republican National Committee CRNC and John McCain volunteer who had allegedly been attacked by a black male for having a McCain sticker on her car in Pittsburgh The story was reported without a link but as developing with the headline Shock McCain Volunteer Attacked and Mutilated in Pittsburgh B carved into 20 yr old Woman s Face 108 The story set off a storm of media attention 106 and was repeated by some conservative bloggers and radio talk show hosts all citing the Drudge Report as their source It was also reported in newspapers and on television around the world 109 The story was confirmed to be a hoax perpetrated by Todd and according to Talking Points Memo spread to reporters by McCain s Pennsylvania communications director 110 The Drudge Report printed a retraction including links to the news stories detailing that the attack had been a hoax and that Todd had performed a similar attack on herself while volunteering in a local Ron Paul grassroots group She was later asked to leave the group because of the hoax Birther conspiracy theories Edit The Drudge Report included some articles intimating that U S president Barack Obama was not an American citizen 111 Hillary Clinton s 2016 campaign Edit On August 8 2016 the Drudge Report displayed a photo depicting two men helping Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ascend a set of stairs during a campaign stop in South Carolina on February 27 2016 Afterward several Twitter accounts in support of Republican nominee Donald Trump used the photo with the hashtag HillaryHealth 112 The use of the photo was criticized by several commentators by whom for presenting a dated photograph out of context to mislead readers 113 114 On October 3 2016 the Drudge Report published an dubious claim that Bill Clinton had an illegitimate child named Danney Williams an allegation that the site had reported as debunked in 1999 based on a Time magazine article 115 On December 30 2016 an article listed on the Drudge Report accused the United States federal government of attempting to bring down its website with a denial of service attack 116 117 Beginning roughly one week earlier DDoS attacks had repeatedly taken the site offline for extended periods Cybersecurity analysts speculated that the attack was on the scale of the 2016 Dyn cyberattack and suggested that only a small number of groups would have the ability to take down a highly trafficked site for extended lengths of time 118 The Drudge Report included articles about the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory 119 as well as conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich 120 Conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting Edit In October 2017 Drudge Report included articles with conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting 121 Immigration Edit In October 2017 the Drudge Report shared a dubious Breitbart News story claiming that an illegal alien caused the October 2017 Northern California wildfires 122 The story was rebutted by the Sonoma County s sheriff department which stated This is completely false bad wrong information that Breitbart started and is being put out into the public 122 In June 2018 the Drudge Report displayed a headline and photo pairing that some perceived as a suggestion that migrant children who had been separated from their parents were violent criminals The photo was actually that of a group of Syrian children holding toy guns 123 124 125 References Edit a b Ford Adam December 8 2019 Rasmussen on 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2007 Lists What s Your Source for That Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information ReasonOnline com October 2 2007 Retrieved October 1 2008 Andrew Breitbart Drudge s Human Face Gawker com Archived from the original on September 9 2008 Retrieved September 10 2008 Hollywood Infidel Observer com September 8 2008 Retrieved October 1 2008 Ziegler John March 7 2012 Matt Drudge Intentionally Ignored Negative Stories to Help Elect Barack Obama Archived March 18 2012 at the Wayback Machine News release Retrieved March 9 2012 Dornic Matt November 2 2010 Curl s Secret Gig with Drudge www mediabistro com fishbowldc Retrieved April 26 2011 Calderone Michael January 5 2015 Former Drudge Report Editor Launches Politics Focused Site Right Read HuffPost Retrieved January 6 2015 Profile Matt Drudge Webmaster of pork pies Scotland on Sunday scotlandonsunday scotsman com Archived from the original on March 29 2008 Retrieved March 13 2009 Drudge Matt January 17 1998 Newsweek Kills Story On White House Intern The Drudge Report Archived from the original on September 1 2006 Retrieved October 5 2006 Johnson Glen January 23 1998 Newsweek got held scoop on Clinton story AP Denver Rocky Mountain News Retrieved April 5 2007 dead link a b McClintick David November 1998 Town Crier for the New Age Brill s Content Archived from the original on August 19 2000 Retrieved July 23 2010 Fineman Howard Karen Breslau February 2 1998 Sex Lies and the President Newsweek Retrieved April 5 2007 Carole A Levitt Mark E Rosch 2006 The lawyer s guide to fact finding on the Internet American Bar Association p 198 ISBN 978 1 59031 671 9 Along with the links comes Drudge s own conservative opinions on the news stories he chooses to highlight Sarno David April 7 2009 Associated Press accuses online news outlets of misappropriation Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 8 2009 U S Attorney s office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Politico Retrieved May 16 2009 Malware delivered by Yahoo Fox Google ads CNET Archived from the original on June 3 2010 Retrieved April 15 2010 Allen Mike August 10 2017 Inside Drudge s new look Axios Retrieved August 10 2017 Woodard Cheryl Lucia Hwang 2007 Every nonprofit s guide to publishing Nolo p 185 ISBN 978 1 4133 0658 3 Rahmel Dan 2007 Beginning Joomla From Novice to Professional Apress p 217 ISBN 978 1 59059 848 1 The Drudge Report webwithoutwords com Retrieved April 13 2009 Drudge Report succeeds in having that web retro feel of something stuck in the early 90s Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web www 37signals com Retrieved April 13 2009 A Touching Moment washingtonpost com www washingtonpost com July 15 2004 Retrieved April 13 2009 The next day Matt Drudge followed suit with his own developing Kerry Edwards story titled Can t keep hands off each other Malone Michael S March 1 2007 Silicon Insider Surfing Upstream ABC News Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved July 4 2016 On a given day the Drudge Report may contain thirty or forty sentence long headlines the most important ones in red all under a single major headline in large bold type On the really big breaking stories especially the ones still emerging Drudge will even post a flashing siren on the screen a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint unfit URL link The Architect Karl Rove and the Dream of Absolute Power Random House Digital 2007 page 72 Sokol Brett June 28 2001 The Drudge Retort Miami New Times Archived from the original on August 29 2005 Retrieved November 1 2006 Matt Drudge I am a conservative Liberal media s voice grows stronger Crainsnewyork com October 11 2008 Retrieved March 19 2009 On the Web The Huffington Post has become a leading news and opinion site just three years after launching Modeled after conservative news aggregator The Drudge Report Will a funny thing happen on the way to Washington Edward Luce The Financial Times October 21 2008 Archived from the original on December 10 2022 Retrieved October 29 2008 the conservative Drudge Report McCain labels Obama the redistributor Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Retrieved October 29 2008 the conservative Drudge Report MoveOn org Targets AP s Fournier for Alleged Pro McCain Bias Editor and Publisher pay site Retrieved September 10 2008 the Drudge Report and numerous other conservative sites Drudge Retort Considers Lawsuit Against AP MediaPost NY Archived from the original on March 4 2009 Retrieved December 9 2008 the conservative Drudge Report A weekly look at what s getting the most looks online The Topeka Capital Journal Archived from the original on March 21 2009 Retrieved December 9 2008 the Drudge Report a popular conservative Web site Is there room for another Drudge Report Washington Examiner February 3 2015 Retrieved April 23 2015 is there a need for another conservative news aggregator Drudge has dominated the field since the late 1990s Richard Siklos June 6 2008 The Web 2 0 defying logic of Drudge CNN Retrieved June 28 2008 Wallsten Peter January 29 2009 New political era Same as the old one Los Angeles Times Retrieved February 7 2009 well known conservative warriors such as Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge Hansell Saul June 16 2008 The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs New York Times Retrieved February 21 2009 Weiss Philip August 24 2007 Watching Matt Drudge New York Magazine Retrieved August 19 2019 It s Always Snowing on the Drudge Report The New Republic December 9 2009 Retrieved April 24 2011 Ben Shapiro Left behind the democratization of the media Townhall com townhall com Retrieved April 14 2009 a b Media Bias Is Real Finds UCLA Political Scientist UCLA Newsroom newsroom ucla edu Archived from the original on March 15 2010 Retrieved February 28 2010 Fox News Special Report With Brit Hume and the Drudge Report were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet Of the print media USA Today was the most centrist Liberman Mark December 23 2005 Multiplying ideologies considered harmful Language Log Retrieved November 6 2006 Liberman Mark December 22 2005 Linguistics politics mathematics Language Log Retrieved November 6 2006 Flawed UCLA led study on medias liberal bias www spinwatch org uk Archived from the original on November 1 2010 Retrieved March 7 2009 LaSalvia Jimmy December 25 2015 Matt Drudge might elect Donald Trump The GOP front runner s secret weapon is the conservative media icon Drudge goes all in for Trump Politico Darcy Oliver October 10 2019 Matt Drudge an influential figure in conservative media sours on Trump as he faces impeachment CNN Business Retrieved October 27 2019 Rosen Armin November 24 2020 Matt Drudge Logs Off Tablet Retrieved January 5 2021 Byrnes Jesse July 25 2020 Tucker Carlson Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left TheHill Fuchs Christian July 20 2020 Towards a critical theory of communication as renewal and update of Marxist humanism in the age of digital capitalism Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 50 3 335 356 doi 10 1111 jtsb 12247 ISSN 0021 8308 S2CID 225578399 Examples of alt right websites are Breitbart Drudge Report InfoWars Daily Caller Daily Wire and WorldNetDaily Florida Department of State Division of Corporations Digital LLC Retrieved November 28 2020 Florida Companies Directory Digital LLC floridacompanysearch com Retrieved November 28 2020 OpenCorporates Digital LLC opencorporates com Retrieved November 28 2020 U S Patent and Trademark Office Drudge Report uspto gov Retrieved November 28 2020 DRUDGE REPORT Trademark Information trademarkia com Retrieved November 28 2020 The Drudge Report Just Made A Huge Change To How It Makes Money Buzzfeednews com August 15 2019 Retrieved April 23 2020 Oliver Darcy April 18 2020 Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump says his web traffic is at record levels CNN Retrieved November 25 2020 Drudge Report has lost almost 30 percent of its traffic in recent months amid turn on Trump Disrn Darcy Oliver April 18 2020 Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump says his web traffic is at record levels CNN Retrieved April 23 2020 Ellefson Lindsey September 14 2020 Trump s Right Drudge Report s Audience Is Down Nearly 40 From Last Year TheWrap Retrieved September 23 2020 a b c d Drudge Report Sets Tone for National Political Coverage ABC News October 1 2006 Retrieved October 1 2006 Halpernin Mark John F Harris October 2006 The Way To Win Random House ISBN 978 1 4000 6447 2 Wallsten Kevin 2011 Drudge s world The Drudge Report s influence on media coverage Texas Archived from the original on October 17 2015 Drudge Matt December 18 2003 Host Unhinged After Sales Figures Revealed Calls Drudge Threat To Democracy Drudge Report Retrieved March 26 2007 Kurtz Howard September 15 1998 MSNBC Pundit Rises With Clinton Crises The Washington Post pp E1 Retrieved October 1 2006 Harnden Toby February 27 2009 Top 10 anti Barack Obama conservatives London blogs telegraph co uk Archived from the original on September 15 2009 Retrieved March 3 2009 Drudge s deft selection of links helps build a conservative case against Obama every day Drudge Retort 2009 Retrieved January 24 2009 Hansell Saul June 16 2008 The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs New York Times Retrieved March 21 2009 The Drudge Retort was initially started as a left leaning parody of the much larger Drudge Report run by the conservative muckraker Matt Drudge Barron James January 8 1999 Pen With Meaning New York Times Retrieved October 1 2008 Kramer Staci D Drudge Retort s Retort To AP Personal Issue Resolved But Larger Conflict Remains The Washington Post Retrieved October 1 2008 Richtel Matt August 27 1998 From the Drudge Report To the Drudge Retort New York Times Retrieved October 1 2008 Andrews Robert June 28 2010 PaidContent where UK newspapers get their traffic The Guardian Retrieved June 27 2016 Newsweek Kills Story on White House Intern Drudge Report January 17 1998 Rutenberg Jim October 22 2007 The Drudge Report warms to the Clinton camp or is it vice versa The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved April 6 2022 Obama plays down photo row english aljazeera net Archived from the original on August 4 2008 Retrieved March 3 2009 Clinton Staffers Circulate Dressed Obama Drudge Report February 27 2008 Spillius Alex February 25 2008 Barack Obama tribal photo sent to Drudge Report by Hillary Clinton staff The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on January 12 2022 Retrieved May 7 2012 News black out BBC News February 29 2008 Retrieved March 2 2008 New Idea defends claims it endangered Prince Harry The Daily Telegraph Australia February 29 2008 Retrieved February 29 2008 New Idea pleads ignorance on Harry embargo ABC Australia News February 29 2008 Retrieved March 1 2008 Frontline Harry a well kept secret The West Australian Archived from the original on March 4 2008 Retrieved February 29 2008 Harry leak disappoints army chief BBC News February 28 2008 Retrieved February 29 2008 Norton Taylor Richard Gillan Audrey February 29 2008 Army prepares to evacuate Harry after news blackout fails The Guardian Retrieved June 17 2016 Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report Fox News February 28 2008 Retrieved March 9 2010 Kurtz Howard May 2 2001 Clinton Aide Settles Libel Suit Against Matt Drudge at a Cost The Washington Post p C01 Archived from the original on August 10 2018 Retrieved April 11 2007 Drudge Matt May 1 2001 May Day Lawsuit Against Drudge Dropped Blumenthal Pays Cash To Get Out Drudge Report Archived from the original on May 6 2001 Retrieved December 15 2006 Tim McDonald 2001 Online Matt Drudge Libel Suit Comes to Wimpy Conclusion Newsfactor com Archived from the original on August 23 2007 Retrieved July 30 2007 Blumenthal vs Drudge Tech Law Journal 1998 Retrieved December 18 2006 Polier Alexandra June 7 2004 John Kerry intern scandal Alexandra Polier s account New York Magazine Retrieved June 7 2004 Special Reports Personal Collection Drudge Report Archives Retrieved on April 2 2007 Hetherington James June 18 2018 Man Claiming to be Bill Clinton s Son Wants Second DNA Test Newsweek Retrieved August 19 2019 Borchers Callum Danney Williams is not Bill Clinton s son no matter what Matt Drudge tells you The Washington Post Retrieved August 19 2019 Drudge Matt April 2 2007 McCain heckled by CNN reporter Drudge Report Retrieved April 2 2007 Roston Michael Edwards David April 2 2007 CNN reporter slams Drudge s charge that he heckled McCain Exclusive video confirms his claim Rawstory Archived from the original on April 6 2007 Retrieved August 13 2017 Memmott Mark April 2 2007 CNN s Ware fires back at Drudge report about heckling On Deadline blog USA Today Archived from the original on October 7 2008 Retrieved August 13 2017 Oprah Denies Report She s Balking at Having Palin on Show Fox News September 5 2008 Retrieved February 20 2009 Harris Paul September 7 2008 US election Storm as Oprah says no to Palin interview The Guardian Retrieved June 27 2016 Some experts believe the issue initially reported on Drudge was a media ploy to drag Winfrey s backing of Obama into the election and show a media bias against the Republicans Zeleny Jeff May 3 2007 Oprah Endorses Obama New York Times Retrieved June 27 2016 a b Fuoco Michael A October 25 2008 McCain volunteer admits to hoax www post gazette com Retrieved March 3 2009 One photo appeared on The Drudge Report on Thursday setting off a storm of media attention Meg White Ashley Todd PA Racist Hoax Victim Was Paid Organizer for College Republican National Committee Not a Volunteer BuzzFlash com Archived from the original on October 30 2008 Retrieved October 29 2008 Feldman Jeffrey October 23 2008 Drudge Puts Dangerous Spin on Mugging Implies Violence Targeting McCain Volunteers Huffington Post Retrieved October 23 2008 Countdown with Keith Olbermann NBC News October 24 2008 Retrieved March 3 2009 McCain Campaign Pushed Now Discredited Attack Story TPM October 24 2008 Archived from the original on October 25 2008 Stelter Brian April 27 2011 Birthers Fanned Flames of Conspiracy for Years The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 20 2017 Obama birth certificate release won t kill birther movement Retrieved October 20 2017 Hillary health myth From Twitter theories to a Trump speech BBC News August 19 2016 Retrieved August 22 2016 Stelter Brian August 8 2016 Drudge Report misleads readers with Hillary Clinton photo CNNMoney Retrieved August 8 2016 Weigel David August 8 2016 Armed with junk science and old photos critics question HillarysHealth Washington Post Retrieved August 8 2016 Golshan Tara October 3 2016 Drudge Report is spreading a conspiracy about Bill Clinton it debunked in 1999 Vox Emery David October 3 2016 Paternity Jest Snopes com Silva Cristina December 29 2016 US Government Attacks Drudge Report Conservative Website Down Because Of Distributed Denial Of Service Attack Matt Drudge Tweets International Business Times Retrieved December 30 2016 Hadley Greg December 29 2016 Matt Drudge suggests US government behind cyberattack on Drudge Report The Sacramento Bee Retrieved December 30 2016 Darcy Oliver January 8 2017 Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report and it s a mystery who s behind it Business Insider Flynn under fire for fake news POLITICO Retrieved October 20 2017 Darcy Oliver Exclusive The chaos behind the scenes of Fox News now retracted Seth Rich story CNNMoney Retrieved October 20 2017 Grynbaum Michael M October 9 2017 Las Vegas Massacre Gives InfoWars More Conspiracy Fodder The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 20 2017 a b Ansari Brianna Sacks Talal Breitbart Made Up False Story That Immigrant Started Deadly Sonoma Wildfires Sheriff s Office Says BuzzFeed Retrieved October 20 2017 FACT CHECK Were Gun Toting Children Photographed on the United States Border Snopes com Retrieved June 19 2018 Frej Willa June 19 2018 Drudge Report Used Photo Of Children In Syria To Depict U S Border Crisis Huffington Post Retrieved June 19 2018 The Drudge Report chose a very misleading photo for a child immigration story Vox Retrieved June 19 2018 External links EditDrudge Report at Wikipedia s sister projects Definitions from Wiktionary Media from Commons News from Wikinews Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Textbooks from Wikibooks Resources from Wikiversity Official website Archives Drudge Report Archive December 1998 Archived from the original on October 17 2014 Retrieved October 10 2014 Internet Archive less comprehensive December 10 1997 Archived from the original on November 1 2001 Drudge Report Archives November 2001 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Drudge Report amp oldid 1148548998, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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