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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
..this is about power, not money...

In this case the power being silencing the opposition and cutting ties to like-minded sources. I think it used to be called book-burning.

I thought Drudge was a big Romney supporter?

P220 Smudge, Hasn’t it kind of been run into a mountain? Look at all the comments here of people who have stopped frequenting the page. If you are in the corporate media and have a voice that you don’t like you silence it by any means. It’s their MO.

The absolute lack of diversity in the American media makes me hope there is a day of reckoning.
Corporate media is the enemy of the American people. They are perpetually dishonest and care only about 1. Power 2. Money and 3. Maintaining #1 & #2.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by DonDraper:
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.

But I live in the United States of America?

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Originally posted by stickman428:
P220 Smudge, Hasn’t it kind of been run into a mountain? Look at all the comments here of people who have stopped frequenting the page. If you are in the corporate media and have a voice that you don’t like you silence it by any means. It’s their MO.

The absolute lack of diversity in the American media makes me hope there is a day of reckoning.
Corporate media is the enemy of the American people. They are perpetually dishonest and care only about 1. Power 2. Money and 3. Maintaining #1 & #2.

I think that reckoning is happening - albeit far slower and more so due to people just tuning out from some media than the media being called out - just look at the latestMedia layoffs and cuts - you are either relevant or your not - media will find a lot of irrelevant outlets - and thus far more laid off folks in coming times

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Originally posted by DonDraper:
But I live in the United States of America?

Such is the landscape, these days. The Daily Mail in the UK has better coverage of the United States than most US-based media, IMHO. It is the only "mainstream" media outlet I look at these days. In very small doses.

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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.

It depends on who's perspective you are looking at...
From Matt Drudge's perspective, I think it was just time to take the money and run.

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Originally posted by stickman428:
P220 Smudge, Hasn’t it kind of been run into a mountain? Look at all the comments here of people who have stopped frequenting the page. If you are in the corporate media and have a voice that you don’t like you silence it by any means. It’s their MO.

The absolute lack of diversity in the American media makes me hope there is a day of reckoning.
Corporate media is the enemy of the American people. They are perpetually dishonest and care only about 1. Power 2. Money and 3. Maintaining #1 & #2.

Oh, it absolutely has been. I don’t think we disagree at all and you may have misunderstood what I was trying to convey. Buying up newspapers because they print stuff you disagree with and making them print your agenda has been going on in this country for nearly as long as we’ve been a country, from what I can tell.

Chellim1, I agree. Everyone has a number they’re willing to accept to walk away from it all. Drudge started this from basically nothing and he’s been at it for how long now? Yeah, I can’t blame the guy if they offered him his walk away number. But specifically speaking to the mindset of the person who bought Drudge Report: they bought it to burn it down and try to turn as many readers as they could in the process.

Haven’t checked Drudge in months and life still goes on, guess I don’t need it.

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Originally posted by Veeper:
If it matters, I saw https://rantingly.com/ listed as a drudge alternative.

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

Thanks, I am liking this one, Rantingly

It seems to me an increasing amount of links are to British papers like The Star. If Drudge has been bought, that might be a clue to who the new owner may be.

If Drudge walked away with a big fat check, good for him. 25 years is a long time to do the same thing every day. Someone else will fill the vacuum.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/

https://bonginoreport.com/

No point in crying about the old Drudge Report. It’s over and done. Find a new site.

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Originally posted by PD:
No point in crying about the old Drudge Report. It’s over and done. Find a new site.

All too true. And thankfully, in 2019, there are many other players in the game. Thank you for adding a few more to my list.