Drudge has also authored a book and hosted a radio show and a television show.

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.

Hawaii Reporter has been featured in numerous media outlets around the world including: ABC 20 / 20, American Journalism Review, Associated Press in Tokyo, Associated Press U. S., Boston. com, Budget and Tax News, BusinessWeek. com, Clear Channel ’ s number one and two radio talk shows in Denver, Drudge Report, First Amendment Center, Forbes. com, Fox News Network, Freedom Forum, Gun Talk Radio, GunWeek Magazine, Hawaii Bulletin Board – K108 Sunday Mornings, Hawaii Business Magazine, Hawaii Parent magazine, Hawaii Public Radio, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Magazine, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HonoluluTraffic. com, Honolulu Weekly, Houston Chronicle, KCCN Radio, KGMB TV 9, KHNL News, KHON TV News 2, KITV News 4, KSSK with Perry & Price, Liberty Magazine, Midweek, MSNBC. com, National Review, News Behind the News, NRA Magazine, NRA Radio, Opinion Journal, Olelo Television, Orange County Register, Pacific Business News, PBS Hawaii, Rick Hamada Morning Show, Rush Limbaugh ( web site ), Samoa News, School Reform News, Small Business News, United Press International, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times foreign bureau, Watchdog. org, Women and Guns Magazine and WPAL Radio in Baltimore, Maryland.

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.

On October 23, 2008, Drudge published an unconfirmed exclusive story regarding Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old employee of the College Republican National Committee ( CRNC ) and John McCain volunteer who had allegedly been attacked by a black male for having a McCain sticker on her car in Pittsburgh.

Drudge then printed a retraction of the story, including links to the news stories detailing that the attack had been a hoax and that Ashley Todd had performed a similar ' attack ' on herself while volunteering in a local Ron Paul grassroots group.

* April 1998 Blumenthal v. AOL ( part of the case against Drudge and AOL ) held that the CDA protects AOL for Drudge's writing that Blumenthal, an assistant to the US President, had a spousal abuse background ( retracted in two days ) even though it paid Drudge US $ 3, 000 a month for his columns, had editorial control and might well have been liable if it was not an online publication.

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.

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

The episode was originally called " Homer the Drudge " and would be about Homer becoming news editor Matt Drudge.

Being a Matt Drudge fan, John Swartzwelder ( pictured ) originally wanted " The Computer Wore Menace Shoes " to be called " Homer the Drudge ".

At that point, the episode was called " Homer the Drudge ".

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

An early internet-based journalist, Orvetti was called " a talented journalist, and completely independent " by former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, and his site was favorably compared to the Drudge Report by several Web site reviews.

" 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.

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.

Breitbart announced in 2005 that he was " amicably leaving the Drudge Report after a long and close working relationship with Matt Drudge " but still helped run Drudge's website from Los Angeles by working the afternoon shift, in addition to running Breitbart. com.

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

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.

In 2006, TIME Magazine named Drudge one of the 100 most influential people in the world, describing the Drudge Report as " A ludicrous combination of gossip, political intrigue and extreme weather reports ... still put together mostly by the guy who started out as a convenience-store clerk.

During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Drudge was described by some, including former presidential candidate Fred Thompson, as having a pro-Mitt Romney slant.

Drudge, described as a conservative populist by The Daily Telegraph, champions himself as free from corporate influences.

Drudge was accused of planting a false story for political ends by some commentators.

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.

* Linking news sites, Matt Drudge creates an Internet success, by Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald, September 1, 2003

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 October 2004 the Drudge Report published a memo Halperin sent to ABC News staff about coverage of the U. S. presidential election directing them not to " reflexively and artificially hold both sides ' equally ' accountable " and that both John Kerry and George W. Bush used " distortion " in their campaign, but that Kerry ’ s distortions were not " central to his efforts to win.

Drudge, who is pro-life, wanted to use a picture of a tiny hand reaching out from the womb to dramatize his argument against late-term abortion, but Fox's John Moody decided that that would be misleading because the photo was not of an abortion but an emergency operation on the fetus for spina bifida.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.