Matt Drudge – it’s time to retire the Drudge Report
September 10, 2009
Is it over for Matt Drudge? 10-15 years ago, Mr. Drudge had a monopoly on news. In essence he was able to push a story from zero to something huge with the addition of the above siren and a screaming headline. Advertising Agencies placed political ads on the site with the hope that their message would reach a wide audience.
However over the course of time things started to change, Matt moved more to the right and the rest of the population moved more to the left causing some serious issues with what people wanted to read and what Matt cherry picked to report.
Now with other media (mostly user generated media) such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, 10,000,000 blogs and everything else under the sun able to push traffic, the question that must be asked is if Matt Drudge’s influence has waned under the crushing pressure of million of tweets, thumb up clicks on Digg and blog posts?
See here’s the problem, we all know that Mr. Drudge was the original blogger using the simple website DrudgeReport.Com, however many dislike his right of center politics, fine… but you can’t take away the fact that Matt was the first blogger to get popular, and very popular at that.
His headlines dominated the internet for over a decade.. until a million other blogs show up. Even the Huffington Post now exceeds Matt’s site in traffic, meaning that he went from a sole superpower to a multi-polar world… and he’s not the biggest one.
We respect you Matt for starting the whole “social media craze”, but one man isn’t going to control the News on the Internet forever and clearly things have been happening at a faster rate recently.
Within the next 3-5 years it might be time to retire the website.
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Ridiculous. Matt is still the best news aggregation site on the Web. To compare it to Huffington Post is silly. Huff is a political website. Drudge is news portal. He’s basically a meta-newspaper that aggregates the most important and sensational stories of the day. Nobody on the net does that nearly as well as Matt. He’s the King of the newsmen- a throwback to an earlier generation who knew what real news meant and how it should be delivered.
Drudge is gone – insignificant and completely taints the news. RIP – not.
There is plenty of room on the internet for Matt’s site or anyone else’s for that matter. The one thing we do not need is left of center “brown-shirt” equivalents pushing the idea that there is only one point of view and no other point of view could be valid (as is the trend in our “New Amerika”).
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Lies are not only at odds with the truth. Ultimately they are at war with themselves.
I really disagree with this article. As an earlier poster mentioned it’s a news aggregation site. It’s not a “conservative” site even if Drudge is conservative. I go to drudgereport every day because I haven’t found a better news aggregation site. If someone can suggest one I’m all ears. I don’t have the time to search hundreds of news sites for articles that may interest me.