![]() It is far from clear whether over the past 15 years, as his influence has grown and grown, Drudge has come to care one bit about this sad future he predicted and has enabled.īack to 1998: Drudge was introduced by Press Club President and Businessweek Washington Editor Doug Harbrecht, who apparently had his own misgivings about the invitation. Too many journalists take items from the Drudge Report as truth and turn them into stories for their own legitimate news outlets. The problem is that an awful lot of what the ordinary guy thinks he knows and puts on the Internet turns out be untrue, whether he is a teenage geek or Matt Drudge-indeed, especially if he is Matt Drudge. ![]() And you would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.” ![]() Drudge went on to say that, “The Net gives as much voice to a 13 year old computer geek like me as to a CEO or Speaker of the House. ‘Every citizen can be a reporter.’” Indeed, as the Drudge Report so impressively demonstrates, even a low-tech site with little more than links to unverified stories and sensational headlines can indeed garner 1 billion viewers-or at least can claim to do so. ‘We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices,’ he said in the speech. In his recent article, Cillizza writes, “Turns out, Drudge was right about where journalism was heading. Later that night at a Washington soiree, Drudge confronted me and demanded to know if I still thought him undeserving of a platform now that he had given what he considered to be a triumphant address. I argued that Drudge-ism was a virus to be condemned and resisted. Though I did not go see Drudge’s speech, I was on C-SPAN’s show “Washington Journal” with Brian Lamb the previous day, and I recall politely chastising Lamb for broadcasting Drudge’s speech and equally politely criticizing the Press Club for hosting him. ![]() Drudge was the future, and now we are living it. In a recent column called “Matt Drudge was right,” Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza recalls a speech that Matt Drudge, publisher of the Drudge Report, gave at the National Press Club 15 years ago in which, as Cillizza observed, the early Internet phenom “outlined his vision of the future of journalism.” I personally think Drudge could not have been more wrong in most of the things he said that day, but Cillizza has a point. ![]()
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