'Drudge Rules Our World'

To better understand why the media has gone crazy about Obama's flag pin story, read the following 2006 article on Matt Drudge, who started it all:
By Greg Sheffield | September 26, 2006 - 12:22 ET
http://newsbusters.org/node/7906



Reports Drudge on himself:

ABCNEWS, WASH POST REPORTERS: 'DRUDGE RULES OUR WORLD'

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The political director of ABCNEWS and the national politics editor of the WASHINGTON POST make it official in their new insider tome on DC politics and how it's played: The four words in every newsroom and campaign headquarters are: Have you seen DRUDGE?

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In an extended 15-page homage to the glories of this site, they report: "Matt Drudge is the gatekeeper... he is the Walter Cronkite of his era."

"In the fragmented, remote-control, click-on-this, did you hear? political media world in which we live, revered Uncle Walter has been replaced by odd nephew Matt."

Mark Halperin and John Harris write "Matt Drudge rules our world." They say, "With the exception of the ASSOCIATED PRESS, there is no outlet other than the DRUDGE REPORT whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts."

They don't even care that he makes shit up - when he's not spreading the RNC talking points, that is.

So many people seem to not get the severity of the problem when the media is not reporting reality. It truly makes me sad and worry that America may not be able to shake off her problems if "no one" knows or cares what the problems really are. By "no one" I mean simply a lot of people - obviously many are aware, but it is such an uphill battle because they sowed the seeds to distrust the media and education in the 80s and 90s, preventing a lot of people from knowing what's really going on.

anyone who admires Drudge having anything to say worth reading.

I read an article he wrote for "THE NOTE' abc's political blog, and it was about THOMPSON, at the federal courthouse saying that Patrick Fitzgerald was out of control during the LIBBY TRIAL. Which made since but no where in the paragraphs did it say that Thompson was the leader of the "SCOOTER LIBBY defense fun", which is crappy reporting to me. ANyhoo i was at the computer and called ABC news in NEW YORK, and then asked for the POLITICAL DESK and them him by name. He answered and I gave him my name and asked him why he left that out and he asked my name again and he asked who I represented to which i said "Im just a citizen and read your article and want to know why you left it out." He said he had to go and hung up, what a SNOB. Anyhow he is slime.

Following Drudge, media outlets seize on Obama decision -- years ago -- to stop wearing flag pin

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710060001?f=h_latest