![]() ![]() Drudge has been linking to them here and there Alex Pareene of Salon notes that they’ve been going back awhile: OK, back to these flash mob/mob violence stories. People who actually can bear to read the Drudge Report every day-and obviously, there are lots of them-have been noticing that he’s been linking to these sorts of stories for awhile. Why did anyone care what happened at a neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts? A Drudge link, prominently displayed when I stopped by. And guess what term turned up:Īpparently, it’s racist to note that all of the youths involved in the attack were black just like the flashmob that attacked the Milwaukee Mayfair Mall in January, the mob that attacked a Dupont Circle store in Washington DC in April, and the flashmob that ransacked a Las Vegas convenience store in early May. On the same day, I read a post about a panic arising on various ideologically driven news blogs, in the wake of an incident in New York in which a bunch of youths tore up a Dunkin’ Donuts. I hadn’t visited the Drudge Report in years, and that post led me to swing by and take a look. That discussion led me to a 2008 post by influential developer and writer Jason Fried, "Why the Drudge Report is one of the best-designed sites on the Web." It’s an interesting post. "If Drudge says something, it may not lead everybody instantly in the same direction, but it gets people thinking about what Matt Drudge wants them to think about."ĭrudge has been in the catbird seat for ages, but for some reason or another it became a topic of conversation again. ![]() "Today Matt Drudge can influence the news like Walter Cronkite did," Halperin told ABC News. ![]() In 2006, Mark Halperin, former editor of the widely-read political tip sheet The Note-himself was so famed for having his finger on the pulse of DC chatter that he earned a New Yorker profile for it- said: Let me explain.Ī few weeks ago, people on Twitter were talking about how much traffic the Drudge Report drives to news sites. I’m starting to think that the prevalence of "flash mob"/mugging stories in the local media has a lot to do with the Drudge Report. ![]()
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