MATT DRUDGE CELEBRATES A DECADE OF NOTORIETY SINCE MONICA LEWINSKY SCOOP
January 23rd 2008 06:16
Pioneer online news buster Matt Drudge made web history on the night of January 17, 1998, when he revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky.
Although the story of course became one of the biggest scoops in modern American history, Drudge was derided, attacked not onky for his political views, but also for working out of a $600-a-month rented Hollywood apartment.
Today his website reputedly makes him US $500,000-a-month and Drudge lives in an exclusive penthouse in Florida.
Drudge has millions of readers and more influence than any other single newsmaker in America. Ironically his ability to direct reader traffic means he is now probably the biggest gate-keeper to conventional journalism today, having earlier been reviled and rejected by mainstream media.
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