Matt Drudge Quotes
Matthew Nathan Drudge is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website. Drudge is self-described as being conservative, populist, and libertarian.
(1966 - )
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A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
[Attention]
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All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
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I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
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I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
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I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
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I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.
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I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
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I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
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I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
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I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
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If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
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It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
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Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
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