Posted by
aMusing on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:47:14 AM
This morning on the
Drudge Report there was a
very interesting article featuring .....
Matt Drudge. (I wonder who posted it?)
To be honest, I have spent years tuning into MSNBC, FOXNews, CNN, and various other news outlets as an attempt at getting the latest information but the Drudge Report was something that was foreign to me. It wasn't until I was on a long drive up to New York with a good friend of mine that he brought the Drudge Report to my attention.
Before checking out the Drudge Report I did what I always do, I Wikipedia'd Mr. Drudge and found out something that both him, Ben Stein, Jim Henson and I have in common...we all grew up in the same area (I bet you thought that I was going to say that we all make 800K...I wish). I soon thereafter visited the site and was surprised to see that his layout is simple and somewhat organized. There are very few advertisements and a plethora of news information which links to a variety of other News outlets. Nevertheless myriads (yes, thousands) of people in search of the NOW visit his site looking for the best and latest news. Interestingly, on the list of 30 online current events and global news destinations the DrudgeReport is ranked #1 averaging 19.9 sessions per person (explains why he has such big pockets).
In Short, Drudge is a tactician who in a sense has the the online political audience at his finger tips. He is somewhat responsible for the downfall of H.Clinton, the success of Obama and the image of a man we call McCain.
Although he has recently shown signs of being a liberal (Have you seen the way that he portrays Obama? You would think that he was a god...) I admire Drudge's ability to grab the attention of the greater online community and sway their political beliefs through his power of images and a simple layout.
Kudos Matt.