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Matt Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an Internet journalist and muckraker.
Drudge's web site, Drudge Report (begun in 1994), consists primarily of links to stories about politics, entertainment, and various current events, and to many popular columnists, although Drudge occasionally authors a story of his own. Drudge started his website on a 486 computer from an apartment in Hollywood, California. Today, Drudge maintains the website from his condominium in Miami, Florida along with his longtime friend and associate Andrew Breitbart based in Los Angeles. Drudge uses connections with industry and media insiders to break stories sometimes before they hit the mainstream media. Probably, Drudge got the attention in one such case, when he beat the mainstream media to the announcement of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Drudge first received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election. In 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting, Drudge again made national waves when he broke the news that NewsweekNewsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States. It is the second-largest weekly magazine in the U. having played second fiddle to TIME during its entire career except for brief moments when its a magazine had information on an inappropriate relationship between "a White House intern" and President Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) is a U. politician who served two terms as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A moderate Democrat who was elected Governor of Arkansas five times, Cli (the Monica Lewinsky scandal), but was withholding publication. After Drudge's report, Newsweek published the story.
Some critics note that Drudge's contribution to journalism is questionable, saying that the only stories he actually breaks are completely conceived, researched, funded, and written by other reporters. A federal judge noted in a judgment on a slander lawsuit, which ended in Drudge's favor, that Drudge is not a "reporter, news gatherer or journalist". Drudge's most famous achievement, the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky story, offended editors because by publishing details of the story, Drudge essentially made an editorial decision that overrode Newsweek's. By many, Drudge's politics are considered to be unabashedly conservative, and he often selects as the lead story of his website articles that promote the anti-abortion stance, praise prominent conservatives, or criticize prominent liberals; this has led some critics to call him a mouthpiece of the conservative establishment in the United States. However, Drudge has repeatedly attempted to distance himself from establishment conservatives, arguing that his politics more accurately reflect libertarianismThis article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. For a discussion of the meaning of the term libertarian that is traditional in Europe, see libertarian socialism. For the use of the term "libertarianism" in the p.
A study on media biasLiberal bias and conservative bias should both be merged and redirected to this article. Media bias is a real or perceived tendency of journalists and news producers within the mass media to approach both the presentation of particular stories, and the se led by Tim Groseclose, of UCLA and Stanford, and Jeff Milyo of the University of Chicago found "Drudge Report" to be the most centrist news outlet in their sample [1].
In addition to links to articles researched and written by journalists, the Report often includes stories authored by Drudge himself. Usually two to three paragraphs in length, these stories generally break a rumor concering a story that is about to break in a major magazine or newspaper. In 1998, he correctly reported that Newsweek was considering a report on Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
