![]() ![]() Still, I would have questioned how this website could demonstrate an obligation to the truth by posting other news organizations’ stories? It’s doubtful Drudge Report actually independently verifies all the facts in the dozens of stories it posts daily. Yet, my news reporting professor back then warned our class: Newspapers will no longer exist. It doesn’t look anything like the broadsheet-style paper I held in my ink-stained hands. ![]() There’s no internal newspaper model monitoring content through multiple layers of editors. My biggest criticism as a then 20-something would have been: There’s no actual journalist. Leading up to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and as an undergraduate journalism student at San Francisco State University, I would have scoffed at the idea. ![]() It has since evolved into the dominating news-aggregation website.īut is it journalism? At its outset, I would have said: Heck no. gossip, the Drudge Report made waves as one the big drivers of internet traffic even before Google or Facebook, but caused a sensation when it broke the bombshell Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, posting insider information that Newsweek killed, according to Pew Research Center. Once narrowly focusing on Hollywood and Washington D.C. In a transformative era of journalism, I believe Drudge Report qualifies as journalism in its service to the public, exposing readers to news covered by a range of organizations including those not leaning toward a single bias. A lot has changed since this scrappy newsletter made its splash on a budding, 1995 internet, including my view. Rather, founder Matt Drudge in an address before the National Press Club characterized himself as a “citizen journalist,” a term which implies license to rush to publish stories that mainstream media hesitate to print based on industry best practices. This modern-day news delivery platform dubbed a news aggregator was not initially self-described as journalism. So between the headlines and accompanying images an unfamiliar consumer might conclude this is a newspaper. The website, unexpectedly still rudimentary, tells readers almost everything they need to know about today. At first glance, a reader can quickly discern the state of things around the country by noting a few of the eye-popping headlines- NFL players booed as racial justice stand sparks outrage, Oregon Scorched, and Advantages of Incumbency Crumbling Away for Trump. ![]()
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