Drudge Report

The Drudge Report is a popular U.S.-based news website run by Matt Drudge. The site consists primarily of links to stories from the mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and various current events, and to many popular columnists, although Drudge occasionally authors a story of his own. The Report originated around 1994 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch. Today, the Drudge Report resembles a simple weblog, though Drudge himself dislikes this classification.

Related Topics:
Website - Matt Drudge - Mainstream media - 1994 - Email - Weblog

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Drudge styles himself as a maverick newsman without corporate bosses, demanding advertisers, or editors to influence his Report. Critics regard him as either careless, reckless, or malicious with stories that are sometimes inaccurate or heavily biased. He has been criticized by various media news personalities such as Dan Rather who called the Report a "rumor mill" http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/09/cnn-airs-extended-rather-interview.html

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, Bill O'Reilly who called Drudge a "threat to democracy" http://www.drudgereport.com/mattbc1.htm, and Keith Olbermann who referred to him as "an idiot with a modem" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/olbermann091598.htm.

Related Topics:
Bill O'Reilly - Keith Olbermann

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