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Ya know, it is kind of funny. The people that bash the Drudge Report have never read it. I know this because every critical statement about the drudge report reveals that the author has never read it because 99% of what's on the Drudge Report is not original content.
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Perhaps you should read the Drudge "Yellow Journalism 101" Report yourself. The following is from the first posting of the unsubstantiated, innuendo filled rumor, Clearly it does not validate the assertion that "the Drudge"Yellow Journalism 101" Report is not original content" relative to this campaign of personal attack on John Kerry. Drudge copywrites the story AND demands credit for it:
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU FEB 12, 2004 11:45:28 ET XXXXX
CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
The fact that other "newspapers" (that term is not truly applicable to the Murdock owned rags BTW) pick up the Drudge story and put in their rags does not condone Drudge's actions.
If all Drudge does is be a compiler of other sources, he'd be a news service. He's not, he's a sleaseball, as true journalist are those who don't throw out unsubstantiated rumors as facts and twist statements by others to suit their self promoting interests. In Drudge's world, corrobaration is unnecessary, expending actual effort to dig up what may be the truth is burdensome to the realization of his own goals, so why bother?
Yes, Yellow Journalism 101 is the class Matt Drudge is the qualified teacher for. Perhaps he can also lecture on "Amoral use of a public platform; Using rumor and innuendo to further your own goals". Few, if any, are as experienced...