" 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.

* The Drudge Report's article from the day the news was formally released can be found in the Drudge Report Archives here

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

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.

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

In 1998, Drudge gained popularity when he was the first outlet to break the news that later became the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

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.

For many years, Drudge was based out of his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

A town hall style meeting organized by Rep. Castle to discuss health care reform with constituents was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline " VIDEO: Congressman's town hall erupts over Obama birth certificate ...".

** HMS Drudge was renamed HMS Dryad from 26 January 1919 until later in the same year.

Another guitarist, Guy, joined a year later, in 1989, and the split LP with the band Drudge was recorded and released on Deaf Records, as well as several other EPs.

* Supposed it was you ( split with Drudge ) 1989

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

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.

Drudge first received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election.

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.

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.

Winfrey responded in a written statement to news outlets that: " The item in today ’ s Drudge Report is categorically untrue.

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.

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

# Independent news and information Websites ( Consumer Reports, the Drudge Report )

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.

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

Originally, the episode was about Homer becoming Matt Drudge, the creator and an editor of the news aggregation website the Drudge Report, which Swarzwelder is a fan of.

Andrew Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012 ) was an American publisher, commentator for The Washington Times, author, and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.

When conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge failed to register drudge. com for his news and gossip website Drudge Report, Cadenhead registered drudge. com in 1998 and started the Drudge Retort as a liberal alternative to the right-leaning Drudge Report, and as " a send-up of Mr. Drudge's breathless style ".

News aggregation websites started with sites like the Drudge Report, NewsNow, Andrew Breitbart and the Huffington Post, where content was still entered by humans.

Drudge frequently links to Breitbart's site, but does not get paid for this service.

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.

Even Matt Drudge visits the Drudge Retort, saying " I go there when I can't get into my own Web site because mine's so popular ".

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.

* 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.

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.

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

Drudge met Andrew Breitbart in Los Angeles during the 1990s and became his mentor, with Breitbart later helping to run the Drudge Report.

Subtracting his relatively minor server costs, the magazine estimated that The Drudge Report website netted $ 800, 000 a year.

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.

ABC News concluded that the Drudge Report sets the tone for national political coverage.