Saturday, July 25, 2020

That pretty much explains it

I used to be baffled by Matt Drudge's political yawing. Now I get it: Matt Drudge is the only cause Matt Drudge is interested in.
The evidence that Drudge’s content direction is based more on money and influence than ideology is something that Lysiak’s book is flowing with. For example, when Andrew Breitbart was working for Drudge as the morning editor, he became convinced that the news aggregator was working to get then-Senator Barack Obama elected.

“In 2008, he became absolutely convinced that Matt was working very hard to have then-Senator Barack Obama elected to the presidency. He was pulling his hair out over this. Andrew would post a story about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and from whatever undisclosed location Drudge was working at on his computer, he would go and replace those stories with something favorable about Obama.”

“Eventually, Andrew Breitbart got up the courage to ask him ‘what gives?’ and Matt told him that while yes, an Obama presidency might be absolutely terrible for the country, it would be great for the website.”

6 comments:

RebeccaH said...

No. Drudge is just another malignant narcissist. I dropped his website out of my bookmarks a couple of years ago.

bruce said...

People imagine that Rupert Murdoch is some sort of right wing ideologue, but the only ideology Rupert ever embraced was extreme leftism when he was a youth, was known as 'Red Rupert' and kept a bust of Lenin in his room at Oxford.

Taking over the family business in the 1950s Rupert kept up his leftism for a while, especially as it sold newwspapers in the Civil Rights era. Eventually he settled into promoting whatever made money, and that's been the family motto ever since. Which is why nothing surprises me about Fox network.

Paco said...

Follow the money, as the saying goes.

Gregoryno6 said...

Bruce - I don't sympathise, but I do understand why our local leftwits continue to use Rupert as their boogeyman. In 1972 he endorsed Labor under Whitlam, and then in 2007 he back Kevin Rudd.
Support from Rupert is a kiss of death for Labor. I'm sure they want him to stay away forever.

bruce said...

Yes Gregory, no doubt the ALP elites have noticed and are happy to promote whichever myth protects themselves.

I had friends in News Ltd in 1973 who told me about being made to support Gough so the Rupert myth always seemed very contrived to me. But maybe being seen as the 'bad boy' helps him sell newspapers too.

If you study Rupert he has loyal insiders who he'll do anything for, he treats them like members of his family, and he doesn't care what outsiders think.

JeffS said...

I was never impressed by Drudge. His policy of his website not allowing links to specific articles was suspicious unto itself.

So his wanting to create bad news for profit surprises me not at all.