Washington Post, ABC News: 'Drudge rules our world'

[Regis Philbin]

http://drudgereport.com/flash3mh.htm


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ABCNEWS, WASH POST REPORTERS: 'DRUDGE RULES OUR WORLD'

Here they come...

In the stampede of books attempting to make their mark this season comes THE WAY TO WIN, by longtime political reporters Halperin and Harris.

The political director of ABCNEWS and the national politics editor of the WASHINGTON POST make it official in their new insider tome on DC politics and how it's played: The four words in every newsroom and campaign headquarters are: Have you seen DRUDGE?

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In an extended 15-page homage to the glories of this site, they report: "Matt Drudge is the gatekeeper... he is the Walter Cronkite of his era."

"In the fragmented, remote-control, click-on-this, did you hear? political media world in which we live, revered Uncle Walter has been replaced by odd nephew Matt."

Mark Halperin and John Harris write "Matt Drudge rules our world." They say, "With the exception of the ASSOCIATED PRESS, there is no outlet other than the DRUDGE REPORT whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts."

[Annoyedlistner]

to bad he's the most biased reporter of his time......if you use drudgereport.com as a news source than your an idiot...plain and simple.

Matt Drudge has ZERO crediabilty.

[Regis Philbin]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2514276&page=1

Drudge Report Sets Tone for National Political Coverage

Book Compares Online Newsman to Walter Cronkite

The Drudge Effect

Oct. 1, 2006— In the crucial congressional elections, now about five weeks away, one of the strongest weapons in the Republican arsenal is a man running a Web site out of his apartment in Miami. His name is Matt Drudge.

Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story and has had a tremendous influence on what you know about politics ever since.

Mark McKinnon, one of President Bush's top campaign consultants, said he checks the site 30 to 40 times per day.

"When there's a siren, that's a three-alarm news deal," he said.

Republican operatives keep an open line to Drudge, often using him to attack their opponents.

"I know that we'd have meetings and that information would find its way to Drudge," McKinnon said.

And then the mainstream media often picks it up.

[Venisenvy]

He still has nowhere near as much power as The New York Times.

[Sinister]

From the same article Regis posted.. :laugh:

Drudge has estimated that 20 percent of his reporting is wrong. He was sued for falsely accusing a Clinton aide of beating his wife.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2514276&page=1