Should rename it the Grudge Report.

I quit watching him several years ago. We have not had a newspaper subscription in nearly 35 years, and I classify Drudge in the same category, and for the same reasons.

Regarding newspapers, could not figure out why I should be paying for their product to only receive a crap load of advertisements, and some slanted so-called news.

What pisses me off is that...I get it if you don’t care for Trump...but all he’s doing is ensuring we will get a Democrat in office.

Classic cutting off nose to spite face.

Then he’ll use his site to whine about that...not realizing he was the stupid fuck who did it!

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Also, saw a blurb that a bunch of sites and assets surrounding the Drudge Report were sold off, and that there were expectations laid out that included bringing Drudge in line with advertiser expectations.

Yeah... he sold out. It's all about the money.

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Also, saw a blurb that a bunch of sites and assets surrounding the Drudge Report were sold off, and that there were expectations laid out that included bringing Drudge in line with advertiser expectations.

Yeah... he sold out. It's all about the money.

I don’t understand. You’ve spent 25 years pissing-off half the country now you want to piss-off the other half. Drudge could lose his entire audience.

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I don’t understand. You’ve spent 25 years pissing-off half the country now you want to piss-off the other half. Drudge could lose his entire audience.

Such a mystery, Drudge can't be that stupid can he? I suppose there's a chance he's being extorted, either with personal info or the leftist mob coercing corporate America into shunning conservative web sites. Whether it's hits to his ego or his bank account, Drudge is looking like a world-class coward and everyone is seeing that. He's on the road to being a trivia answer.

I ditched Drudge about 4 months ago. Look at Fox News a few times a day. I mainly get all my world info from SIG forum

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I don’t understand. You’ve spent 25 years pissing-off half the country now you want to piss-off the other half. Drudge could lose his entire audience.

Such a mystery, Drudge can't be that stupid can he? I suppose there's a chance he's being extorted, either with personal info or the leftist mob coercing corporate America into shunning conservative web sites. Whether it's hits to his ego or his bank account, Drudge is looking like a world-class coward and everyone is seeing that. He's on the road to being a trivia answer.

Hey, Matt! Come out of the closet. No one cares who you sleep with

New news aggregation site by Gab, a Twitter alternative, the new Drudge report?
The content is selected by what is trending on Gab.

GAB TRENDS

Trends.Gab.Com = The New Non-Cucked Drudge Report
by Michael Suede • October 20, 2019

For those of you who don’t frequent The Drudge Report website, you may not have known that Matt Drudge’s site went full cuck never-Trump a while back, leaving the conservative base without a decent news aggregation site, besides LibertarianNews.org of course.

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, just released Gab Trends at trends.gab.com. Gab Trends is a news aggregation site based on Gab and Dissenter ‘like’, ‘dislike’ and comment activity. Dissenter is web browser that adds a built in comments section for every web URL in existence. This means people can now comment on CNN.com articles, even if CNN disables comments on the article, as long as they are using the Dissenter browser or browser plug-in extension for Chrome, FireFox, Opera or Safari.

Articles on popular news sites that have a high comment activity will automatically populate themselves onto the Gab Trend’s main page. This make it easy to see what news stories are trending across the web without having to sift through dozens of headlines.

I highly recommend adding this site to your favorites bar, as well as switching over to the Dissenter browser. Chrome and Google Search have become highly censored. Dissenter uses the Duck.com search engine by default, which results in much less censorship of conservative content.

Torba was recently interviewed on The War Room about the downfall of the Drudge Report and why he created Gab Trends. Torba notes that Drudge dumped his advertising partner of 20 years for a new one with ties to Silicon Valley, and immediately following that, Drudge began pushing his iOS and Android apps that had previously been removed from the app stores. Troba believes Drudge may have given over the reigns of his operation to communists in Silicon Valley after being paid off in advertising agreements.

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I deleted my Drudge bookmark.

Use Rantingly, Whatfinger and Liberty Daily for the same thing.

Drudge still beats the rest to the big stories. I saw the current Ukraine Whistle-blower story on there before anywhere else. Nobody has posted a better alternative to what he delivers yet.

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Drudge still beats the rest to the big stories. I saw the current Ukraine Whistle-blower story on there before anywhere else. Nobody has posted a better alternative to what he delivers yet.

simply roll through the MSM outlets several times a day, as all he does is link to what they have already posted.

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GAB TRENDS

I'm liking this.

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GAB TRENDS

And look at one of their stories:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/...es-to-take-him-down/

Trump supporters are mad as hell with ‘left-wing’ Drudge Report — and creating their own aggregator sites to take him down

Written by Alex Henderson
November 5, 2019

Unwavering devotees of President Donald Trump often have difficulty comprehending the fact that it is possible to criticize the president and still be politically conservative, and even Matt Drudge — right-wing founder of The Drudge Report — is not immune to the wrath of Trumpistas. Journalist Will Sommer, in the Daily Beast, reports that some Trump supporters have come to view Drudge as an enemy of the president and are hoping to compete with him by launching “conservative Drudge-style aggregator sites” such as Liberty Daily, NewsAmmo, WhatFinger and Rantingly.

Such sites, according to Sommer, are combining a Drudge Report-like format with overtly pro-Trump coverage that they believe is missing from Matt Drudge’s site — and they even emulate the “low-tech” three-column layout that The Drudge Report has had since the late 1990s.

In addition, the far-right social media network Gab recently unveiled the aggregator site Gab Trends “amid discontent from Trump supporters with Drudge,” Sommer reports.

Andrew Torba, founder of Gab, told the Daily Beast, “It’s what the internet is talking about right now, not what Matt Drudge thinks the internet should be talking about right now.”

Trumpistas are also accusing Twitter of having an anti-Trump bias — despite the fact that the social media platform allows him to reach 66.5 million followers and post as many offensive comments as he wants. In an October 22 tweet, Gab Trends used Twitter to attack Twitter, complaining, “Drudge and Twitter had the same anti-Trump in-your-face headline narratives today.”

Not surprisingly, Matt Drudge had no interest in being interviewed for Sommer’s article. Despite having one of the most high-traffic right-wing sites in the history of the internet, Matt Drudge has been the Greta Garbo of conservative media — in other words, famously reclusive.

So far, Sommer reports, none of the sites that view themselves as MAGA alternatives to the Drudge Report have “anywhere near” as much traffic. Sommer notes that according to SimilarWeb, the Drudge Report “received more than 80 million visitors in September.”

Moreover, Sommer adds, these MAGA alternatives are “unlikely to capture the influence Drudge has wielded over media and politics.”

“Stories highlighted by Drudge often end up making it on the cable news, and media outlets have long sought the mammoth traffic a link from the site can bring,” Sommer explains.

Nonetheless, Sommer adds, these sites could find an audience if enough Trump supporters continue to view Matt Drudge as an adversary.

Howard Polskin, who analyzes right-wing media at The Righting, told the Daily Beast, “If criticism of Drudge keeps happening, it may create an opening for one of these sites to really become much more popular with an audience.” And WhatFinger told the Beast, “Our readers are libertarians and conservatives, and they say Drudge is far too left-wing now.”

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Drudge still beats the rest to the big stories. I saw the current Ukraine Whistle-blower story on there before anywhere else. Nobody has posted a better alternative to what he delivers yet.

Actually the UK Daily Mail now has him beat or will cover things he now selectively ignores.

This might explain things if true. Dude sold out.

Rasmussen on Drudge Report: "We don't think Matt [Drudge] is there anymore. Word is he sold, just waiting for confirmation."
by Adam Ford · Dec 8th, 2019 10:27 am

Last Updated Dec 8th, 2019 at 2:51 pm
Rasmussen Reports, the influential polling company, tweeted Saturday their belief that Matt Drudge has sold and is no longer running the titanic news aggregator that bears his name, the Drudge Report.


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We don't think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Word is he sold, just waiting for confirmation. Now that will be a story.

The Drudge Report — one of the most popular news destinations on the web, regularly clocking over a billion page views per month — has historically been a conservative-leaning news aggregator and was openly pro-Trump before and after the president's election victory. The site has garnered much attention in recent months for a clear shift in coverage of the president, and its overall tone, seemingly turning against Trump and its historic conservative slant. The move has outraged some conservative pundits and resulted in the creation of new Drudge competitors.

If the Drudge Report has indeed been sold, this would explain the shift in the site's tone. It would also be a major story, as the Drudge Report is a powerful driver of traffic, regularly competing against and beating sites like CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post in visits.

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That would be something if they kept it secret that Drudge sold out

Sure could explain a lot. I was very disappointed in how Drudge Report turned so antiTrump

Whoever bought Drudge must be seeing a drop off in ad revenue, or at least that will be coming soon. And I imagine their business plan before buying Drudge was that ad revenue would stay level or increase. Someone will get fired over this.

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Whoever bought Drudge must be seeing a drop off in ad revenue, or at least that will be coming soon. And I imagine their business plan before buying Drudge was that ad revenue would stay level or increase. Someone will get fired over this.

You ever heard of a loss leader? If you’ve got billions in “fuck off” money, then buying Drudge Report and torpedoeing it is like buying advertising at worst. If you can pay to assassinate all the cheerleaders of a pro team that you want to see fail, then you don’t give a shit that they’re not bringing in their Nike sponsorship dollars.

That’s what’s happening here, and make no mistake about it: this is about power, not money. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have simply run the brand they bought straight into the mountain.