While he cultivates a reclusive image, Drudge runs in tony conservative circles with friends like the late Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. This goes so far beyond that. The Scene. Type keyword s to search. In its heyday, The Drudge Report was one of the most powerful sites online, delivering the sort of political news that made its founder part of the scandal that inspired Impeachment: American Crime Story. Matt Drudge launched his influential website The Drudge Report in , during the early days of the Internet.
Bob Carey Getty Images. Karin Cooper Getty Images. Today, the reclusive Drudge, pictured here in Los Angeles in , has alienated some fans but continues to publish his influential website. Paul Harris Getty Images. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. And his anger was renewed on election night after Fox News was the first network to project that eventual President-elect Joe Biden would win Arizona.
According to the political website The Hill , the Trump campaign urged people to call Fox to ask them to withdraw the call. The president has urged his supporters to abandon Fox for other conservative outlets such as Newmax, and Mike Allen at Axios has reported that Trump wants to start a digital media company to compete with Fox.
No doubt about it. To do so, however, would require convincing Trump supporters to abandon their principle source of news. Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino is offering Trump supporters an alternative to Drudge Report in his Bongino Report , launched last year. Bongino is regularly among the top 10 performing Facebook posts on a given day, according to the Twitter account that tracks them.
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Print Subscriptions. Deseret News homepage. Filed under: Politics Utah InDepth. Despite the brickbats, Drudge rapidly attracted a large readership with his gregarious mix of aggregated Beltway and Hollywood gossip, news stories drawn from outlets spanning the political range, and headlines that were clickbait before the term had been coined.
Where readers flocked, news editors followed with tails between legs. And with no legacy overheads and a lean staff, Drudge was soon raking in the money, the proceeds of which he enjoys today in his acre property outside Miami where he moved in the wake of the Lewinsky furore.
While the readership has always leaned heavily male and conservative, his devoted fans include unexpected figures, such as feminist intellectual Camille Paglia.
She was one of the first established voices to break ranks and endorse the site at a time when it was still being almost universally derided.
Paglia is right: it is amazing that the Drudge Report continues to enjoy the influence it does. The point-size of its banner headline has crept up a bit, but otherwise the layout of the site is virtually unchanged from the original design, as though it were stuck in time. According to analytics company comScore, the Drudge Report had 2.
That reach is amplified when you consider the strong engagement of readers who tend to return frequently, producing a total m page views that month. While the Drudge Report is a rightwing site true to the libertarian, small government, anti-abortion , climate change-denying world view of its creator, its impact is felt much more widely. Over the past 20 years, the rightwing megaphone has grown far more sophisticated.
But instead of threatening his supremacy, they have provided political ballast to his idiosyncrasies. The threat to the Drudge Report has come, paradoxically, not so much from rightwing competitors but from the very source of his own success — individualised news born of the internet.
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