Matt Drudge is not Decadent and Depraved

More than 20 years after he broke the Lewinsky story, Drudge is still the most important single man on the Internet.

At Townhall Timothy Meads writes an interesting discourse on Drudge:

In 1998, internet pioneer Matt Drudge gave a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in which he mapped out a future. He dreamed of a national press free of editors and beholden not to corporate masters but driven by the ever industrial spirit of the American citizen reporter.

Back then, after taking the lead on the explosive Monica Lewinsky scandal, Drudge told the Press Club that "...clearly there is a hunger for unedited information, absent corporate considerations."

Drudge, as he is in all things, was right about that.

We must read 25 or 30 stories a day on a variety of platforms. Information superhighway? Heh. We go down an information rabbit hole. We get a hell of a lot more than we ever got from the stupid Nightly News broadcast. Who still watches that?

We read no legacy media. We wouldn't trust those communist degenerates to tell us the local traffic, much less events in the Middle East. And we wouldn't waste garden hose water on one of those reprobates if they were on fire. We might call 911.

Anyway, we were an early blog connoisseur, starting with the once great then snitty Andrew Sullivan. By 2003 we read half a dozen blogs, Insty, Powerline, Hot Air (then Captain's Quarters), etc, etc.  

These were actual news junkies who blogged about actual news and didn't care about missing blondes, unlike the sainted CBS or the 40th Street Times.

Legacy media still doesn't get it, and as Meads points out, is enraged to the point that it doxxes private citizens it doesn't like. No, we will turn on no garden hose for these people.

But we still go to Drudge first thing every day.