Why did Matt Drudge switch on Donald Trump?
By Bob Norman
Matt Drudge, whom rose to stardom as he broke the Monica Lewinsky tale across the final presidential impeachment, nevertheless operates the news aggregation web site that bears his title in this one. And he’s still the most people that are influential the news.
The now-52-year-old Drudge and a staff that is skeleton created clickbait. They still current lines of juicy, but text that is context-less aggregated from around the net, in a typewriter font: “STUDY: Farmers have most sex…” “Interior minister warns of perform of migrant influx into EU…” “HILLARY 2020? ‘DON’T TEMPT ME’…”
It’s been a recipe that is effective. The Drudge Report has surpassed the New York Times in web traffic in recent years, according to one analytics firm. On their web web site, Drudge boasts 10 billion views for the year that is last that will be generally speaking in accordance with other reported estimates.