Kudos to Beato for dredging this up. I wonder how he came across these legal docs. Also had no idea the amount of influence Drudge had on the cable news.
The whole payment for linkage deal just goes to show what a wild west new media is. It's dirty, but because it's happening online, where the rules are being rewritten all the time, it's not as egregious as say, running paid content and calling it editorial. Though it's close. #andrewbreitbart
@jackbarber: I suspect the thing is, DC politics is the realm of the profoundly unhip, middle-aged pundit class. (See: Slate.)
Drudge is stale as can be- amazing how an AOL account and a scoop on the Lewinsky thing can be parlayed into a fortune. DC insiders are incredibly conformist creatures of habit and the herd. It's rather clinical, this continued lavishing of praise on Drudge- who does no reporting of his own.
He repackages and cuts and pastes things to give it the most Republican slant possible. I forget who said, "DC is wired for Republicans", but that's never been more true in the past year.
The DC media loves to criticize every single thing Obama has said done, thought, wore, ate, relentlessly and every single day. The truly monstrous things that Bush got away with, some serious scandal, matters of war, life and death things, as well as the fiscal catastrophe he wrought- well, they're just good little Village soldiers. And Drudge is their mayor.
Tragic figure? Drudge chose whatever sad life he made for himself, and his career as ankle-biting GOP shill doesn't inspire much sympathy here. A closeted gay man activally abetting the party stomping on gay rights is something I find contemptible, actually. #andrewbreitbart
@jackbarber: That's been pretty much my refrain to every "Drudge is so important post", I've encountered.
I'd venture that right now, the overwhelming majority of those who read him are just a handful of bloggers, those who were lectured during recent terms in j-school, right-wing opinion makers and a few people from non-thinking media. Otherwise, I'd say that his "influence" is the knee-jerk way reporters and anchor list him, whenever somebody asks about websites.
Though, you do have to give him (them) credit, if they've convinced Reuters to pay for worthless traffic. #andrewbreitbart
@Baroness: re. Drudge I guess I'm a little less judgmental, at least immediately so. I think he might feel regret, and certainly some self-loathing. Life is long(ish) and I'll be interested to see where he comes out in the end. #andrewbreitbart
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Thanks for the publicity. The intent of the iDrudge Drudge Reader app was not to remove advertising from the Drudge Report. The Drudge Report already has a version with no ads at iDrudgeReport.com. The intention of the iDrudge Drudge Reader was to allow people who would not otherwise be able to view the Drudge Report on an iPhone due to the inconvenience of using the Safari browser to view the site. This should actually increase the traffic to the Drudge Report site and increase it's ability to attract revenue. The iDrudge Drudge Reader is merely a specialized web browser that is preset to view the Drudge Report.
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To be fair, Matt Drudge has never turned down an attempt to run a ginormous picture of Nancy Pelosi. Never. It's his equivalent of HuffPo putting up a picture of Rush Limbaugh - it gets the core audience fuming with indignation before they can read a word.
I only have two questions left about the whole thing before I complete ignore any- and everything written about his death from here on out:
1) Seriously, what's happening to the Beatles catalog?
2) Why on Earth do people rush out and buy someone's music or books or whatever when they die? That stuff's not going anywhere. It's not like you must rush to get it because now that they're no longer living, the MP3s are gonna disappear. It's going to sound today exactly like it did 2 days ago, and if you didn't want it then, why do you want it now?
@DahlELama: I'd like to think that in at least some cases people who watch coverage of the person's death are reminded how much they liked them, or how they always meant to read that book/listen to that album and buy accordingly.
Well, for what it's worth, I'm a teenager and had never really listened to any of MJ's stuff. I mean, I heard Billie Jean on the radio and watched the Thriller video once after my mom talked about it, but I had no idea how great of a performer he was, or how prolific. After he died yesterday I went onto Youtube and watched some of his videos and realized some of his songs are really cool. So I went and downloaded them. I've been playing Dirty Diana basically nonstop since last night. I've also realized that my generation sucks in terms of music. Very sad.
@JeromeCabaret: That's the best explanation I've heard so far. Yes, your generation totally sucks in terms of music, but the beauty of really good music from the past is that it lasts for long enough to make up for Taylor Swift.
@DahlELama: Hey! My generation does not suck in terms of music! For every Taylor Swift, there is a Conor Oberst, Britt Daniel, Cut Off Your Hands, Cool Kids, and other such artists to counteract. This is the laziest criticism.
@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: You just named four artists (and referred to many more) who get approximately no radio play. Yes, every generation has some great artists, thank God, but none of these people are "counteracting" Taylor Swift until my doctor's office replaces it's hourly blasting of "Romeo and Juliet" with one of their hits.
@DahlELama: Eek, just noticed this! Where I live, those artists plus a whole heap more local ones get plenty of radio play (in part due to a government-initiated pledge to play at least 30% homegrown artists). Yeah there's some rubbish around, sure, but no more than there was five, ten, twenty, or thirty years ago- I mean, I'm pretty sure that The Osmonds weren't considered the cream of the crop, and their career trajectory was pretty much over long before I was born! I think that my generation slash the one after mine is coming into this era where a lot more indie bands are emerging, where, due to the advent of the internet, bands can get coverage and radio play without necessarily having to be signed to a major record label first. Y'know?
"you can spend your money better than the government can spend your money...unless, of course, it's to subsidize captain cheney and kid dubya's dashing adventures fucking shit up in the middle east! woo-ha!"
11/05/09
11/05/09
The whole payment for linkage deal just goes to show what a wild west new media is. It's dirty, but because it's happening online, where the rules are being rewritten all the time, it's not as egregious as say, running paid content and calling it editorial. Though it's close. #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
This is interesting too. why no page views? #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
Deserves more page views.
(On which basis I assume Greg Beato is getting paid!) #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
I cannot fathom why Drudge commands such fealty that he's the one the media mob look to for their cues. It's deeply strange herd behavior, I suppose.
Breitbart is just pure cretin, though. Glad you wrote this, fine work. #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
He still gets traffic but I don't think it's influencer traffic in the same way it used to be.
I'm not saying I'm an influencer (or gold-digger) but I do know influencers. And I don't think people go there anymore.
Am I wrong?
And I agree that Breitbart is a simple villain. Drudge a more tragic figure. #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
Drudge is stale as can be- amazing how an AOL account and a scoop on the Lewinsky thing can be parlayed into a fortune. DC insiders are incredibly conformist creatures of habit and the herd. It's rather clinical, this continued lavishing of praise on Drudge- who does no reporting of his own.
He repackages and cuts and pastes things to give it the most Republican slant possible. I forget who said, "DC is wired for Republicans", but that's never been more true in the past year.
The DC media loves to criticize every single thing Obama has said done, thought, wore, ate, relentlessly and every single day. The truly monstrous things that Bush got away with, some serious scandal, matters of war, life and death things, as well as the fiscal catastrophe he wrought- well, they're just good little Village soldiers. And Drudge is their mayor.
Tragic figure? Drudge chose whatever sad life he made for himself, and his career as ankle-biting GOP shill doesn't inspire much sympathy here. A closeted gay man activally abetting the party stomping on gay rights is something I find contemptible, actually. #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
I'd venture that right now, the overwhelming majority of those who read him are just a handful of bloggers, those who were lectured during recent terms in j-school, right-wing opinion makers and a few people from non-thinking media. Otherwise, I'd say that his "influence" is the knee-jerk way reporters and anchor list him, whenever somebody asks about websites.
Though, you do have to give him (them) credit, if they've convinced Reuters to pay for worthless traffic. #andrewbreitbart
11/06/09
11/05/09
Now, who pulls the strings at Reuters, and who are their friends? #andrewbreitbart
11/05/09
08/29/09
Thanks for the publicity. The intent of the iDrudge Drudge Reader app was not to remove advertising from the Drudge Report. The Drudge Report already has a version with no ads at iDrudgeReport.com. The intention of the iDrudge Drudge Reader was to allow people who would not otherwise be able to view the Drudge Report on an iPhone due to the inconvenience of using the Safari browser to view the site. This should actually increase the traffic to the Drudge Report site and increase it's ability to attract revenue. The iDrudge Drudge Reader is merely a specialized web browser that is preset to view the Drudge Report.
Sincerely,
Joseph Nardone
08/28/09
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1) Seriously, what's happening to the Beatles catalog?
2) Why on Earth do people rush out and buy someone's music or books or whatever when they die? That stuff's not going anywhere. It's not like you must rush to get it because now that they're no longer living, the MP3s are gonna disappear. It's going to sound today exactly like it did 2 days ago, and if you didn't want it then, why do you want it now?
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It goes with their MO of reporting yesterday's news today, rather than today's news today.
06/18/09
fuck you and the horse you rode in on, george.
06/18/09
06/18/09
its little 40-gallon hat wearing turd head.