* 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 president was asked to give a deposition, and accusations that he lied about an affair under oath first made national headlines on January 17, 1998, when the story was picked up by the conservative-right e-mail newsletter The Drudge Report.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 ".

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.

When Mrs. Drudge answers the phone, Stoppard makes fun of the excess of information readily handed out in murder mysteries.

The article was widely condemned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, and Abe Foxman, among others, including now-disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner who suggested that New Yorkers take copies of that issue out of their news boxes and destroy them.

After all, that was the thing that interested them and us the most ( and unfortunately there are few who do not fit into stated majority ). During the trial, Matt Drudge accused the media of largely ignoring testimony and evidence that exonerated Jackson and said, " Out here ... Michael Jackson is being literally crucified ... I think if you did a pulse poll, of people listening to these local talk shows, they would say 95 % that Michael Jackson did all this ... because it ’ s based on the coverage.

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

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

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.

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

IALA began to develop models of the proposed language, the first of which were presented in Morris's General Report in 1945.

In 1978, it began its annual World Development Report, which discusses growth prospects for developing countries.

In 1972, Accuracy In Media began publishing the AIM Report, a twice-monthly newsletter originally edited by Reed Irvine.

The network had already decided to cancel The Late Show, and had a replacement series called The Wilton North Report in development, when the show began a ratings resurgence with its final guest host, comedian Arsenio Hall.

In addition, RIT was listed by U. S. News & World Report as one of only 12 colleges nationally recognized for excellence in the internships / co-ops category and has secured this ranking, which is based on nominations from college presidents, chief academic officers and deans, for four years in a row since U. S. News began the category in 2002.

This reputation meshed nicely with Cronkite's wire service experience, and in 1967 the CBS Evening News began to surpass The Huntley-Brinkley Report in viewership during the summer months.

After the Public Schools Act 1868, in response to the Clarendon Report on the financial and other malpractices at nine pre-eminent public schools, the school began to approach its modern form.

Citing a recently released Maine Higher Education Survey Report, a cramped location between the river and the railroad tracks, an aging physical plant, and lack of dining facilities for men, amongst others, Johnson began a campaign to move the college to a more adequate location.

On 1973's Sweetnighter, Weather Report began to abandon the primarily-acoustic group improvisation format, and the band started to take a new direction.

Towards the end of the year, Pastorius began working on his long-delayed second solo album ( Word of Mouth ) in New York, while Zawinul worked on new Weather Report material in California.

Penn Law is also one of the " T14 " law schools, that is, schools that have consistently ranked within the top 14 law schools since U. S. News & World Report, began publishing rankings.

U. S. News and World Report, in its annual America's Best Graduate Schools, ranked the jazz studies program as the best in the country every year from 1994, when it began ranking graduate jazz programs, to 1997, when it retired the category .< ref >< u > US News and World Report </ u ></ ref > The One O ' Clock Lab Band has been nominated for 6 Grammy Awards.

* Report claiming crisis began on 25 October.

Weather Report began as an experimental group, but eventually garnered a huge following

Lujack started reading some of them and began airing stories from them instead of reading the grain reports connected with the Farm Report.

The 2008 U. S. State Department Report States " At midyear Federal Police in Manaus began investigating allegations that a foreign-owned travel company arranged fishing expeditions to the Amazon region that were in reality sex tours for U. S. and European pedophiles.

* University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics ranked as one of “ America ’ s Best Hospitals ” for the 20th year in a row ( since rankings began in 1990 – U. S. News & World Report, 2009.

Ever since U. S. News & World Report began ranking law schools in 1987, Columbia Law has appeared in the Top 5 each year, an honor shared only with Yale, Harvard, and Stanford .< ref >

The Heinz College has ranked in the top 10 since US News and World Report began ranking schools of public affairs in 1995.

" ( HUD 2002 Annual Housing Activities Report ) Then in 2003-2004, the subprime mortgage crisis began.

The Washington Monthly's annual college and university rankings ( an alternative college guide to the U. S. News and World Report and Forbes College Rankings among domestic publications ) began as a research report in 2005.