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Matt Drudge [1966-0] American
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Journalist, Commentator


Matthew Nathan "Matt" Drudge is an American political commentator and the creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregator. Drudge has also written a book and hosted a radio show and a television show.

Amazing, Communication, Technology

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All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? Technology
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You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. Amazing
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Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
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Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
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I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
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It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
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The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
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There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
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There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
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We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
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I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
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I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
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I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.
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I'm not mean.
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I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
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Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
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There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
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I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
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I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
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The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.
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I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
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A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. Communication
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