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ET TU, Matt?

Post by Riddick » 07-06-2020 12:31 AM

The Drudge Report, the quintessential conservative news aggregate that redefined reporting at the dawn of the 21st century, appears to have switched sides & sold out. Last year Rush Limbaugh remarked during his radio show:
  • I was perusing the Drudge page over the top of the hour break.

    Man, the Drudge page. Depending on the time you look at it, I mean, it makes it look like this country’s finished, we’re done, it’s over. You may as well forget about it and just enjoy your life.
Others took note as well. A change in advertisers also brought a change in a new persona that was noticed all the way to the White House. An unrepentant Drudge told the Columbia Journalism Review:
  • Drudge went “all in on Trump during the [2016] election.”

    “That was three years ago,” the founder of the aggregate website responded. Norman noted that Drudge’s “response seemed rather telling, a clear distancing from the president.”

    Trump has noticed Drudge’s apparent shift, according to a report in the Daily Beast published last November. Trump asked, “What’s going on with Drudge?” according to a person familiar with his private remarks. Trump also asked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a top administration official, to contact him to repair the relationship, but it’s unclear if Kushner did.
Drudge long surrendered the day-to-day running of his news site to columnist Charlie Hurt and never-Trumper Daniel Halper. This could explain the sudden hard-turn in the site’s reporting.

Yet a new question has recently arisen, “Does Matt Drudge still own his website?” The answer is seemingly: NO! Buzzfeed News dug deeper:
  • Since November, the links on the Drudge Report have sent roughly 8 million pageviews to the [dnyuz.com] site, according to data from analytics service SimilarWeb. This has likely earned significant revenue for its owner, who has taken steps to hide their identity. The success of dnyuz.com is yet another example of how Google, which provides the ads that make the site’s money, allows webpages that copy content from real publishers to reap ad dollars. At the same time, the news industry is hemorrhaging jobs and revenue.

    A post on May 24 on the scammer-tracking site hucksters.net identified the site’s owner as Hayk Karapetyan, a web developer living in Armenia. BuzzFeed News came to the same conclusion based on domain registration records, Domain Name System data, and dnyuz.com’s use of the same Google AdSense ID number as other sites currently or previously owned by Karapetyan.

    The Drudge Report began linking to dnyuz.com as early as November 2019, according to data from SEMRush, a search analytics tool. The links have been a consistent presence on the site since. Neither Karapetyan nor Matt Drudge responded to requests for comment.
At a time when America’s cities are burning, trust in our political and news media institutions across the board is at record lows. Drudge served as a modern day version of the Norse God Heimdall, the all-seeing/all-hearing cyber-watchman who kept both in line, and fairly honest in their behaviors.

Now that it appears he has walked off his job, who will take his place?

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Re: ET TU, Matt? There's a new Brutus on line!

Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 07-06-2020 06:21 AM

What can we add Riddick? We all saw the negative transition toward 45. As cutting edge as it was Coast to Coast AM hosts and guests, on many occasions, were first with news on all fronts!

Here's just two Coast show examples to quickly note. I've never once seen on his page touting the many health benefits of turmeric! Let alone seeing what baking soda can do for people in need health wise.

In these new weird assed Leftist liberal/Antifa/Commie times. We don't see the new owners lacking viewer ship!

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Re: ET TU, Matt?

Post by Doka » 07-06-2020 12:59 PM

Drudge went Full Left several years ago. Haven't been there for ages.

https://thedonald.win/ is a helpful site , if you want someting Before it is Mangled by the MSM

I have another Drudge like search site, at the moment can't find it, will post , when I do.

THIS IS IT...https://www.citizenfreepress.com/?utm_s ... sSites2020

https://www.whatfinger.com/
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Re: ET TU, Matt?

Post by Malaria_Kidd II » 07-06-2020 02:36 PM

Thanks Doka for the good options for change. :coolhat:
[*]@ #2 Find the eerie antedating of 12/7/1941 vs 9/11/01


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https://youtu.be/DUY8aSx8-yo

#1 B

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Re: ET TU, Matt?

Post by Riddick » 07-06-2020 03:09 PM

Doka wrote: 07-06-2020 12:59 PM Drudge went Full Left several years ago. Haven't been there for ages.
From what I gather seems the switch went from noticeable to obvious the last year or so. I had a Drudge Headlines feed on my news aggregator, but almost never visited the main site 'til the pandemic...I was shocked as hell to see how gone to hell it'd gotten

Mark Levin said Matt's a pseudo-conservative opportunist. I tend to agree.
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