Did Matt Drudge Have A Falling-Out With Trump?

October 02, 2019, 12:00 PM

2015, 2016, 2017 and into 2018...the Drudge Report was pretty balanced on the Trump news

Now, it's all negative all the time on Trump. Every. Damn. Day.

WTF happened to this guy?

October 02, 2019, 12:02 PM

Balzé Halzé

Maybe he's just trying to relive his Bill Clinton impeachment glory days.

Screw him in any case.

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October 02, 2019, 12:05 PM

Ackks

Hey has been negative for the last few years. He's MSNBC level right now.

October 02, 2019, 12:06 PM

egregore

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Screw him in any case.

Sums it up perfectly.

October 02, 2019, 12:06 PM

PASig

I'm about to delete all my Drudge bookmarks, it's sad because I've been checking that daily for over 20 years now.

October 02, 2019, 12:13 PM

Veeper

quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
2015, 2016, 2017 and into 2018...the Drudge Report was pretty balanced on the Trump news

Now, it's all negative all the time on Trump. Every. Damn. Day.

WTF happened to this guy?

At the end of the day, Matt Drudge survives on clicks and views. He probably doesn't care if it's outrage or agreement.

Ever notice how much clickbait is littering all of the "news" pages these days? And that's so called legitimate news pages. The clicky twitter "news" people are even worse, even the conservative or liberty-minded people.

As an example, I like David Harris Jr. for his commentary now and again. A few times a day he posts a link to a short op-ed or even news recount from another site titled something like "Janet Reno requested rifles be pointed at....." and then you're supposed to click the link to find out OMG WHAT DID SHE DO?!

Well it turns out to just be another non-story, but the page is littered with clicky ads.

Even Breitbart is totally plastered with these things now.

Matt Drudge is probably the pioneer in this realm. You probably didn't notice if, like me, you might have agreed with many of his custom headlines.

October 02, 2019, 12:41 PM

springnr

Drudge replacement----> Whatfinger

October 02, 2019, 12:49 PM

ensigmatic

I've never found Drudge to be particularly interesting.

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October 02, 2019, 12:52 PM

PASig

quote:
Originally posted by springnr:
Drudge replacement----> Whatfinger

Thank you! Bookmarks updated.

Hey Matt Drudge...you're OUTTA HERE!

October 02, 2019, 12:55 PM

RHINOWSO

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Did Matt Drudge Have A Falling-Out With Trump?

Welcome to 2017 bro.

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I've never found Drudge to be particularly interesting.

Yeah, it's like the online version of bad AM radio, with ZERO original shit.

October 02, 2019, 01:07 PM

PASig

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:

Yeah, it's like the online version of bad AM radio, with ZERO original shit.

OK, this is a confusing statement.

Are you inferring that Drudge should be CREATING content?

He always just collected links and posted them on his website. It's just my beef with him seems to be that he NEVER lists any links to positive Trump news anymore, only just the bad.

October 02, 2019, 01:10 PM

PowerSurge

quote:
Originally posted by Ackks:
Hey has been negative for the last few years. He's MSNBC level right now.

Exactly. I haven’t been to his page in about a year. Drudge is rabidly anti trump.

October 02, 2019, 01:11 PM

PowerSurge

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Originally posted by PASig:
I'm about to delete all my Drudge bookmarks, it's sad because I've been checking that daily for over 20 years now.

Same here. I was reading drudge since before the Lewinsky scandal. But his page is dead to me now.

October 02, 2019, 01:19 PM

220-9er

Drudge has always been an online tabloid.
He just finds others news stories that are likely to get a click and reposts them on his site.

October 02, 2019, 01:22 PM

synthplayer

quote:
Originally posted by springnr:
Drudge replacement----> Whatfinger

Thanks for the tip.

October 02, 2019, 01:25 PM

RHINOWSO

The "Drudge Report", which implies a 'report', or making something worth reading, but it's just a bunch of links to other shit.

Then everyone blabbers how they "Read on Drudge", blah blah blah, so I assumed that somewhere in all his clickbait that there was some original shit, other than his titles.

Granted I could never find them, so he lost my interest very early on the first day I heard of it.

I'd return occasionally when people would mention "It's on Drudge", but it was still the same recycled shit with inflammatory titles begging for clickies.

Again, it's like shitty AM radio - just repeating what others have already said, usually poorly.

October 02, 2019, 02:02 PM

12131

Drudge only cares about Drudge. Nothing else. He has turned completely into a tabloid sensationalism National Enquirer in the last few years, worse and worse in the past year and a half. Scandals, half truths, outright shocking fake shit sell.

October 02, 2019, 02:15 PM

doublesharp

Citizen Free Press is a good site, too.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/

Drudge is just clickbait and he leans left bigtime.

October 02, 2019, 02:19 PM

justjoe

I stopped reading Drudge completely, and it's an improvement on my day. Robots having sex with humans, houses of filth with 50 cats and dogs and feces everywhere-- and similar Enquirer type stories-- three headed pig-- who needs that crap? Plus, constantly anti-Trump.

Screw Matt Drudge.