I saw an earlier thread about this odd headline on Drudge's site. It strikes me at first as a practical joke, then maybe a hacker, but then it turns into an extremely cynical Drudge. Anyone think he has snapped and might end it all?

-- Jack (mercer@usa.net), December 04, 1999

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Go to the New York Times website and check the Saturday, Dec. 4th edition.......Op-Ed page (Opinion/Editorials). There's a lengthy editorial on Matt Drudge. It's a real "hit" piece, which is why Drudge probably headlined his website as he did. The article states that ever since Drudge was fired from Fox he's faded from glory. The article states that Monica-gate brought Drudge fame, and now that the Monica story has faded into history, so has Drudge.

-- Linda (lindasue1@earthlink.net), December 04, 1999.

His page says he is dead. Oh well, no great loss for humanity. I sure as hell ain't gonna miss him, or his low-life news reporting.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 04, 1999.

I still check his site every day.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), December 04, 1999.

Me too - several times.

-- Y2KGardener (govegan@aloha.net), December 04, 1999.

I love Drudge. One of the last in a dying breed of investigative reporters in a sea of news 'hosts'. He's still alive and kicking.....it's the rest of them who may as well be propped up in a corner with some fishing line attached to their lower lips that is tugged upon in a synchronized fashion to match the recording of a voice-model anchorperson. They create a feeling in me, just watching them, that makes me wonder if I'm actually stuck in "The Matrix" and I nearly need to adjust my breathing pattern or turn off the tv.

What a bunch of pathetic, twitforbrains assholes. I think they actually believe some of the sensless crap that comes from their fishing line too. It's depressing.

Hawk.....give FLEET a try, I here the product produces.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), December 04, 1999.

Think Matt Drudge has been hacked AGAIN.

Just to be sure because nothing would surprise me anymore, I went to today's (Sat, Dec 4) NY Times Obit page, and nothing. Whew! The headline at Drudge reads "In an obit that stretches 2/3 of a printed page on Saturday: New York Times: Drudge is Dead". NOT!

I personally like (and trust) Drudge, and think we need a thousand more just like him. He can't be bought!

I'm sure there are a lot of NWO types out there that wish he was dead (including Bill and Hill). Any dirty politician, VIP, etc., with something to hide and something to loose. You know, the one's who keep hacking his web page.

And, I for one would be very suspicious if something suddenly happened to him.

-- flb (fben4077@yahoo.com), December 04, 1999.

Why, just thinking about this country's news media makes me spell 'hear', h e r e. :)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), December 04, 1999.

Bet he pi$$ed off a whole lot of people with this one. Don't think he left anyone out....LOL. A keeper!

His opinion of the "gutless" (his words) news coverage of the riots in Seattle by the "phony cable news channels"

FOR EDUCATIONAL/DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

http://www.drudgereport.com/seattle.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999 20:55:09 ET XXXXX

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

Late on Tuesday evening in Seattle, such a commotion in the street.

Someone declared the end of globalism, broke a window, and someone's head got beat.

Who cares if CNNMSNBCFOXNEWS and all of the rest of the phony cable news channels did not have the guts to cover the globalism riots in Seattle in real-time.

They're yesterday's way. Late-century frauds that will get washed away like a bad nightmare in morning light.

[Didn't the same channels go live -- for hours -- to a Seattle shooting episode last month? That story was on message, I suppose. GEMURDOCHTURNER like shootings, don't like protests against world systems -- that they run.]

CNNUN was in a stock market report when a series of explosions rocked the downtown area as police cast a giant cloud of noxious gas over the core of Seattle.

Imagine, if you will, that an explosion rocks Pristina. You just know Christiane Amanpour would rush to the airwaves in breaking news urgency, with onions under her fingernails, reporting the sound of the atom splitting. Jamie would be feeding the script in her ear from State.

Ted Turner did not hear the boom -- after all, he sold it years ago for a few million TIMEWARNER A-class global shares. Who gives a damn about America when you are making a fortune with POKEMON profits?

Just as police were firing pepper spray into the crowds and protesters started blazes in the middle of a downtown Seattle street, NBC's concern was with officially launching its first public Internet company bearing its name and branding, NBC Internet, Inc. (NBCi).

In the Year of our Lord Dow Jones 11,000 -- Bob Wright, President and CEO of NBC and Chairman of NBCi made the announcement after the successful closing of the transactions to form NBCi.

As if Wright understands one thing about what is driving the Internet revolution?

[Has anyone checked MSNBC.COM lately? Safe and mushy and late to everything. If it were not for MSNBC corporate deals with WEBTV -- would anyone have this page as their default? Thought so.]

A wave of breaking bottles crashed across the city street, and someone cut a cable to a satellite truck that was feeding to a HANNITY AND COLMES on FOX NEWS.

Late in the day, the channel had exhausted all JonBenet Ramsey, Mexican graves and Monica Lewinsky topics and was reluctantly moving into Seattle coverage at the fresh speed of a FOX FLASH.

MTV NEWS was nowhere to be found in Seattle on Tuesday.

After all, MTV youth weren't programmed to get upset about their corporately conceived destinations. Isn't MTV really just a VIACOM production -- which will soon marry CBS -- which will own a 1/3 of everything on the dish and the box?

"This RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE world premiere video is brought to you by NIKE!"

MTV rebellion is an episode of LOVELINE between bong hits.

Next stop: suicide.

Tom Brokaw-aged Kurt Loder will pretend to be concerned, before he introduces the next Marilyn Manson, brought to you by PEPSI.

ABC's NIGHTLINE did not even mention Seattle Tuesday night. Viewers who thought they were watching anchor Ted Koppel -- quickly realized that he had left the building ten years ago.

There was no symphonic soundtrack, no spiffy 'Battle in Seattle' graphics to tell the story of tens of thousands of diverse protesters trying to scream above the satellites, trying to get the world to hear a story the media networks refuse to tell without a sneer on their faces. "Not since the days of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement has the entire downtown core of a major American city been seized by popular uprising; rarely has so diverse an array of groups linked elbows against a common enemy, in this case the faceless forces of globalization," a newspaper reported in fresh editions.

"Mad river of people floods the streets of Seattle. Once in a lifetime experience. Send it to your friends," newspaper vendor Paula Rozner called out, announcing afternoon headlines in the old/new-spirit of Extra! Extra!

Organizers credited the Internet with mustering widespread support. "It has allowed people to communicate at least as regularly as corporations do," said Denis Moynihan of the Direct Action Media Collective.

A protester dressed as a sunflower blocked a limousine carrying Secretary of State Madeline Albright on a Seattle street.

To think that she had once told students at a commencement address at Harvard: "Those who graduate today will live global lives!"

Albright must have been reassessing the concept, while sipping lattes, trapped in the lobby of the Westin Hotel as anti-globalism protesters raged outside.

Us Albright watchers have suspected for some time, that for Madam, The World is Not Enough.

Her raw lust to control on a geo-political scale is something beyond ego and ambition and a hot new St. John outfit from Neiman's that makes your Chinese counterpart forget that you bombed his embassy in Kosovo.

Strobe and Sidney and Tony and Hillary and all of the other "Third Way" basketcases should be writing books [that would never sell] about their visions -- not implementing a world policy.

"We think it's a great challenge to marry our conceptions of social justice and equal opportunity with our commitment to globalization," Bill Clinton declared at summit in Florence, Italy a few weeks ago, where his wife picked up a "global law" award.

"A way that requires governments to empower people with tools and conditions necessary for individuals, families, communities and nations."

Sorry, Mr. Clinton. Here, people empower governments.

We thought you knew.

----------------------------------------------------------- Filed by Matt Drudge
Reports are moved when circumstances warrant
(c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999
Not for reproduction without permission of the author


-- flb (fben4077@yahoo.com), December 04, 1999.

And the people can take their government BACK as well! Just as soon as they're done with their big macs and X'mas shopping.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), December 04, 1999.

I hope it's just hype! I love Drudge, too....he's so much like Walter Winchell used to be- for those old enough to remember that hard-hitting reporter. I loved Drudge's show on Fox- sick about him leaving it. (Then Fox showed the very pictures that they refused to let Drudge show! What hypocrisy. He's a real patriot, and what a shame that is getting to be a no-no, in this society.)

-- Jo Ann (MaJo@Michiana.com), December 04, 1999.

NATO 50th anniversary sponsored by Coca-Cola (among others)

-- made upname (noid@ihope.com), December 04, 1999.

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Matt Drudge's reports during the Presidential fiasco were of interest to parties on both sides of the issues. Why ?

Both sides recognized his pen could not be bought !

It was about telling the truth, nothing more and nothing less.

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-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 04, 1999.

Hawk, so Drudge's reports are low life, huh? Typical: Criticize the report of low life activity, but have nothing to say (or care about) the low life activity.

Typical. The truth is called, Low Life because that's what you *really* think about the activities the truth exposes. Why don't you make a statement about that? Or would that push all your little midget-mind buttons?

-- paul leblanc (bronyaur@gis.net), December 04, 1999.

It's just Drudge tongue-in-cheek :-) He's spoofing / exaggerating their claims that he's "finished."

Which of course he is not.

The Big Media hate the little guy who attracts attention away from THEM. Case of huge egos demanding control. Turf wars.

Silly stuff, kindergarten stuff the idiots have "elevated" to Big Business.

The Establishment hates and fears the Internet. If some of them could see this Forum! ...

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 04, 1999.

Here's the NY Times article in question: The Strange Legacy of Matt Drudge.

Says Mr. Rich, hopefully: "Whatever errors Drudge made in his Washington coverage, they were nothing compared with his wildly mistaken conviction that any citizen can be a reporter in the new democratic era of the Internet."

This is either wishful thinking or a thinly veiled called for regulation of the Internet (read: competition). Whichever, Drudge was the wakeup call for millions of Americans, including myself, who didn't understand that their rulers might lie to them. They understand now, no thanks to the New York Times.

Mr. Drudge is not dead and is in no danger of "suicide," planned or otherwise.

-- Alan Rushby (arushby@yahoo.com), December 04, 1999.

Ashton & Leska! Excellent. Finally, you really DO get something, lol! Now, about those crashing planes and falling birds from the sky.....it just miiiiiight not be y2k..... :)

Regards,

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), December 04, 1999.

Just a quick post to let you Matt Drudge Fans out there know he is on the radio syndicated nationally every Sunday night at 10:00 P.M. (EST) His show is great and imformative. He is on for 2 hours here in New York City. Try to catch it. Check your local talk radio station for a listing.

-- DrudgeListner (Rkcs@WABCNY.com), December 04, 1999.