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color:#ffffff; background-color:#76923c; text-align:center;"><b>Stop the presses!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thunderf00t/Criticism_of_Tropes_vs._Women" title="Thunderf00t/Criticism of Tropes vs. Women">Thunderf00t/Criticism of Tropes vs. Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19_Kids_and_Counting" title="19 Kids and Counting">19 Kids and Counting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quora" title="Quora">Quora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evie_Magazine" title="Evie Magazine">Evie Magazine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Singal" title="Jesse Singal">Jesse Singal</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; 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Extra!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffffff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:What_is_going_on_in_the_world%3F" title="RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?">WIGO World</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Media" title="Template:Media">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Media" title="Template talk:Media">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Media&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="messagebox mb-brainwatermark plainlinks mb-info" style=""> <tbody><tr> <td class="mb-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Information_icon.svg" class="image"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/50px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/75px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/100px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></a> </td> <td class="mb-text"><b>This article requires expansion.</b> Please <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&action=edit">help</a>.</b> <p>Though not a <b><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Stub" title="RationalWiki:Stub">stub</a></b> by pure word count, this article lacks depth of content. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>And you would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows... <a href="/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunning-Kruger effect">every citizen can be a reporter.</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Matt Drudge, explaining the booming popularity of <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a> reports</cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Drudge Report</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Tabloid" title="Tabloid">tabloid</a> website which hit the big time breaking the <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Monica Lewinsky</a> scandal. It is the work of Matt Drudge, who worked at 7-11, <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>, and the CBS Studios gift shop before finding his calling as an <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> gossip. He also "wrote" (not really; much of it is verbatim reprints of emails to Drudge, chat transcripts, National Press Club transcripts, pages of nothing but 0s or 1s, and quotes) a book of stream-of-consciousness drivel and assorted filler, the <i>Drudge Manifesto</i>, which sold a lot of copies to the same sort of smarmy people who think the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluetrain_Manifesto" class="extiw" title="wp:Cluetrain Manifesto" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Cluetrain Manifesto">Cluetrain Manifesto</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond" title="Eric S. Raymond">The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a></i> are profound and cutting edge. </p><p>The Drudge Report has not been particularly notable for anything since then, except as a driver of Internet traffic to other websites and having web design straight out of 1995. Drudge's usual style is to link to ordinary news items using sensationalist and often misleading headlines. A link from Drudge usually results in the article's comments section turning into a cesspool of <a href="/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist">racist</a> <a href="/wiki/Dog_whistle" class="mw-redirect" title="Dog whistle">dog whistles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moral_panic" title="Moral panic">moral panics</a>. Drudge has been named as a significant conduit to über-<a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theorist">conspiracy theorist</a> <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>' websites; in 2013, Drudge promoted at least 50 Jones articles and linked to at least 244 within 2 years.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Alex must have noticed, because in 2015, Drudge was invited on the <i><a href="/wiki/InfoWars" class="mw-redirect" title="InfoWars">InfoWars</a></i> show. Take a wild guess if Drudge accepted the offer?<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>Two absolutely worthy causes it has helped boost are <a href="/wiki/Birtherism" class="mw-redirect" title="Birtherism">birtherism</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Global_warming_denial" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming denial">global warming denial</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> (it was a big promoter of <a href="/wiki/Climategate" title="Climategate">Climategate</a>, of course).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> How he makes any money from the site is a mystery since it carries only a few blind-banner ads, many of them from <a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">wingnut</a> pressure groups. The website design has changed little and still looks very 1997-ish. It has inspired at least two spoof websites, the Sludge Report and the Drudge Retort. </p><p>The site's popularity has been dwindling steadily, <a href="/wiki/Alexa" title="Alexa">Alexa</a> stats show. And that's even with the artificially inflated number of viewers Drudge claims. The revisit number is "inflated"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> by the use of an autorefresh script which refreshes the page every three minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-refreshing_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-refreshing-8">[8]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Stopped_clock"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Stopped clock</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Stopped_clock">Stopped clock</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Stopped clock">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In September 2018, the Drudge Report linked to the BBC story proclaiming <a href="/wiki/Probiotics" title="Probiotics">probiotics</a> useless. This is a rare positive contribution to society from the Drudge Report, and it means that Drudge doesn't have to post anything accurate in the least for the next 10 years. </p><p>Surprisingly, since around 2019, the Drudge Report has occasionally headlined a more mocking stance of some of the most brain-baffling statements from <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, his staff, and his advisors.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> Worshipers of the Orange One who demand <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">unswerving loyalty to the president</a> in their media were not amused.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" title="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew Breitbart">Andrew Breitbart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Morano" title="Marc Morano">Marc Morano</a>, proprietor of a denialist clone of the Drudge Report.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Matt_Drudge">Matt Drudge, the homophobe</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Drudge Report</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/">Sludge Report</a>, a spoof website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drudge.com/">Drudge Retort</a>, another spoof website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_OBUXLTGM">Drudge Report Black Crime Coincidence?</a>, <a href="/wiki/TYT" class="mw-redirect" title="TYT">TYT</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/drudge-report-obama-bows-japanese-robot">Peak Drudge.</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Drudge_Report&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/26/how-matt-drudge-serves-as-alex-jones-web-traffi/193780">How Matt Drudge Serves As Alex Jones' Web Traffic Pipeline: Drudge Report Has Linked To Jones' Infowars Site 244 Times In Two Years</a> by Ben Dimiero (April 26, 2013 9:19 AM EDT) <i>Media Matters for America</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxbvYWKhX48">Matt Drudge Visits the Alex Jones Show: Full Interview</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/20/corsi_book">Matt Drudge hypes Jerome Corsi's new birther book</a>, Salon</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/with-drudge-reports-help-birthers-latch-onto-phony-forgery-theory.php">With Drudge Report's Help, Birthers Latch Onto Phony Forgery Theory</a>, Talking Points Memo</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/11/drudge_and_the_denialists.php">Drudge and the denialists</a>, Deltoid</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200911250005">Drudge, <i>Washington Times</i> falsely claim allegedly hacked e-mails show global warming is not real</a>, <a href="/wiki/Media_Matters" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Matters">Media Matters</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 55 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 64 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 96 character 9. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 100 character 9. • Invalid media query at line 138 character 8. */ .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://retran.com/latest/2008/11/02/hitwise-shock-drudge-rank-misleading/">"Latest from ReTran USA » Blog Archive » Hitwise Shock: Drudge Rank Misleading"</a>. retran.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-04-14</span></span>. <q>Drudge's page instructs your browser to refresh once every three minutes, thus inflating the hit counts</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Latest+from+ReTran+USA+%C2%BB+Blog+Archive+%C2%BB+Hitwise+Shock%3A+Drudge+Rank+Misleading&rft.pub=retran.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fretran.com%2Flatest%2F2008%2F11%2F02%2Fhitwise-shock-drudge-rank-misleading%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ADrudge+Report" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-refreshing-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-refreshing_8-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFThese_numbers_also_ignore_the_3-minute_auto-refresh_that_Drudge_activates_on_his_page." class="citation web cs1">These numbers also ignore the 3-minute auto-refresh that Drudge activates on his page. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/11/03/drudge-refresh-loads-800-000-000-pages-refresh-october-08">"Drudge (refresh) loads 800,000,000 pages (refresh) in October '08"</a>. www.thestandard.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-03-03</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Drudge+%28refresh%29+loads+800%2C000%2C000+pages+%28refresh%29+in+October+%2708&rft.pub=www.thestandard.com&rft.au=These+numbers+also+ignore+the+3-minute+auto-refresh+that+Drudge+activates+on+his+page.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestandard.com%2Fnews%2F2008%2F11%2F03%2Fdrudge-refresh-loads-800-000-000-pages-refresh-october-08&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3ADrudge+Report" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Text "The Industry Standard" ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#text_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment">CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_numeric_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/GUkU7">Drudge Report,</a> 2020 Apr 24, archived 2020 Apr 24</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200423192908/https://www.drudgereport.com/">Drudge Report,</a> 2020 Apr 23</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/467288-drudge-faces-conservative-pushback-after-mocking-trumps-colorado-wall-comment">"Drudge faces conservative pushback after mocking Trump's Colorado wall comment"</a> by Joe Concha, The Hill, 2019 October 24</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-privately-seethes-drudge-impeachment-coverage">"‘What’s Going On’ With Drudge?: Trump Privately Seethes Over Impeachment Coverage"</a> by Nicole Lafond, Talking Points Memo, 2019 November 25</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joe Concha (July 25, 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509017-tucker-carlson-matt-drudge-is-now-firmly-a-man-of-the-progressive-left/">"Tucker Carlson: ‘Matt Drudge is now firmly a man of the progressive left’"</a>. <i>The Hill</i>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div></div><div 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