When was drudge report founded

One former confidante cited a story in apparently wide circulation among the small number of people who know or knew Drudge: In the early s, this person said, Drudge fantasized that he would keep the DrudgeReport.

Others asserted that Drudge, reportedly a globetrotting lover of expensive cars, hotels, and real estate, actually would sell for the right amount. Two floated the theory to Tablet that the site had been bought by a liberal billionaire. Armin Rosen is a staff writer at Tablet, from which this column was adapted. The full version is here. November 28, am. Matt Drudge Getty Images. The Drudge Report Alamy Stock Photo One former confidante cited a story in apparently wide circulation among the small number of people who know or knew Drudge: In the early s, this person said, Drudge fantasized that he would keep the DrudgeReport.

Was it a mole at the paper? Maybe I never will. He had his ways of burrowing in. On January 17, , Drudge Report featured an explosive headline: Newsweek had killed a story alleging President Clinton had had an affair with an intern. How did Drudge end up with the scoop that transformed his career? It remains unclear. Was it the Newsweek reporter, was it Lucianne Goldberg [a literary agent and Drudge friend who was working with Linda Trip on a tell-all], was it Linda Tripp herself?

Did it pass through multiple hands? But while the who of the scoop remains a mystery, the why, at least for Potter, is perfectly clear. Where else is it going to go? Drudge may have been underestimated early on, but media insiders today are quick to credit the immense role he played in shaping the news culture of today. In , New York attempted to track down the conservative journalist , who decamped from Hollywood to Florida in both, the magazine reported, due to the lower tax rate and the privacy that could be found outside of California.

Though the magazine was never able to interview Drudge for its profile, he did email them a denial about rumors over his personal life when Out , a prominent LGBTQ magazine, said that he was gay. He has repeatedly denied this. Years later, he gave a rare interview to controversial far-right radio host Alex Jones in , during which he spoke about how his Drudge Report has maintained its ethos, while the media landscape has changed around it. You go up and down — we talk about this — what's the difference between the websites?

There isn't any! And this is travesty. It's almost like a weird conglomerate of groupthink that has developed in a dynamic era that should be vibrating.

Drudge's right-wing critics disagree. They take particular issue with what they call his opposition to Donald Trump. In , Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Drudge , saying he had become "a man of the progressive left.

At times, his site is indistinguishable from The Daily Beast or any other woke propaganda outlet posing as a news company. PEOPLE's requests for comment on Drudge's role in the unraveling of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal — and his take on his portrayal in the show — were, predictably, not returned. FB Tweet More. Matt Drudge.