It also contains copies of e-mails sent to Drudge by his readers, dialogues between Drudge and his cat, and extensive descriptions of parties Drudge has attended and how the celebrities there reacted to him.

Drudge has been called " the Walter Cronkite of his era " by Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, " an idiot with a modem " by Keith Olbermann, " the country's reigning mischief-maker " by Todd Purdum of The New York Times, and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek said " Drudge is a menace to honest, responsible journalism.

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The gossip genre has crossed over onto television and the internet with sites such as TMZ. com and its television counterpart TMZ on TV as well as Perez Hilton, The Drudge Report and The Smoking Gun breaking many of the stories that were formerly the domain of gossip magazines and tabloids.

WVOC has a talk radio format with syndicated shows, mostly from parent Clear Channel's Premiere networks, including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Matt Drudge, Adam Bold, and Coast-to-Coast AM.

Matthew Nathan " Matt " Drudge ( born October 27, 1966 ) is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website that also breaks major news stories.

The show, which was also named the Drudge Report, was syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.

They also wrote that "" Drudge, with his droll Dickensian name, was not the only media or political agent whose actions led to John Kerry's defeat.

Several nationally-syndicated talkers, including Art Bell, Mike Gallagher, Lionel, Laura Schlessinger, Michael Savage, Matt Drudge and Laura Ingraham, have also been heard over WABC's airwaves.

Drudge can also refer to:

In 2000, she also helped Matt Drudge write his Drudge Manifesto.

In his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge says that he " failed his Bar Mitzvah ", and graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, giving himself, in his words, a " more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post at 7-Eleven ".

Drudge wrote a book with Julia Phillips in 2000 titled Drudge Manifesto.

In their 2006 book The Way To Win, Mark Halperin and John Harris report that Republican National Convention chairman Ken Mehlman " kind of brags " ( as CNN host Howard Kurtz puts it ) about utilizing the Drudge channel.

In the book, he states that he visited gay bars with Matt Drudge and other conservatives.

Prior to the release of the book, internet personality Matt Drudge claimed that " the revelations in book should sink Hillary's candidacy for 2008.

The book received heavy media coverage when it was released, including coverage by the Drudge Report and New York Posts Page Six, an appearance by Jackson on C-SPAN, and even an article on China Daily titled " Clinton Accused of Raping Nurse in New Book.

From June 1998 to November 1999, Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Drudge on the Fox News Channel.

Drudge hosted a Sunday night talk radio show – " The only time anyone will let me on the air ," he claimed.

In 1999 Matt Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Drudge on the Fox News Channel.

An article in The Miami Herald from September 2003 said Drudge estimated he earns $ 1. 2 million a year from his website and radio show.

Drudge gained notice in the early 2000s by becoming a frequent reference for news material on Limbaugh's, Sean Hannity's, and Mark Levin's radio shows.

Drudge left his position as radio host with Premiere effective September 30, 2007.

On October 22, 2007, New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg wrote that Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, were cooperating with Drudge and " working harder than ever to get favorable coverage for their candidates – or unfavorable coverage of competitors – onto the Drudge Report ’ s home page, knowing that television producers, radio talk show hosts and newspaper reporters view it as a bulletin board for the latest news and gossip.

The story set off a " storm of media attention ", being quickly picked up by many conservative bloggers and right-wing talk radio show hosts, all citing the Drudge Report as their source.

* Drudge Radio Archives & Podcast-MP3 archive and podcast of Matt Drudge's Sunday evening radio show

During the evening of Sunday, October 2, John Fund, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, announced on the radio show of blogger Matt Drudge that his sources had told him that the nominee would be moderate Hispanic Judge Consuelo M. Callahan of the Ninth Circuit.

His first radio appearance since his departure from ABC was as a substitute host for Matt Drudge on July 22, 2007.

The help, Mrs. Drudge, gravitates to the radio, oblivious to the corpse, and turns it on just in time for an overly expository police message explaining that police are searching for an escaped madman in the swamps surrounding the manor.

He then proceeded to host a second show as a guest host on KFI in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of Matt Drudge, in the next three hours from 7 – 10 PM Pacific time.

By the following day, questions about the authenticity of the documents were being publicized by the Drudge Report, which linked to the analysis at the Powerline blog in the mid-afternoon, and the story was covered on the website of the magazine The Weekly Standard and broke into mass media outlets, including the Associated Press and the major television news networks.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

Sites such as Reddit, Digg, the Drudge Report, Fark, Something Awful, and the webcomic Penny Arcade have their own corresponding " effects ", known as " the Digg effect ", being " drudged ", " farking ", " goonrushing " and " wanging "; respectively.

In his 1942 essay " Memoirs of a Drudge " humorist James Thurber recalls being sent to Red Bank by his newspaper's city editor on a tip that " Violets ( are ) growing in the snow over in Red Bank.

News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report, which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair.

The memo's authenticity was questioned by many within the US, including pundit Matt Drudge.

Drudge pointed out that website's transcription of the memo contained several errors, namely a misspelling of the name of the memo's author ( Kozu instead of Koza ), a misspelling of the NSA's " top secret " stamp ( with a " 1 " instead of an " L "), and several words written with a non-US spelling, as well as a date-stamp in the European format.

Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC.

His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www. refdesk. com, and his mother, a former staff attorney for U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six.

Drudge went to live with his mother.

In the 1980s, Drudge worked as a telemarketer for Time-Life Books.

Drudge was unknown before he began the news aggregation site, the Drudge Report.

Here, he was apparently privy to some inside gossip, part of the inspiration for founding the Drudge Report.

The Drudge Report began as an e-mail sent out to a few friends.

In March 1995, the Drudge Report had 1, 000 e-mail subscribers ; By 1997, Drudge had 85, 000 subscribers to his e-mail service.