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Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels
By Prime Patriot -
April 19, 2020

“The past 30 days has been the most eyeballs in Drudge Report’s 26 year-history,” Drudge said in an email to CNN. “Heartbreaking that it has been under such tragic circumstances.”

The Drudge Report, founded in 1995, is arguably the most influential conservative news website. Drudge rarely reports or writes stories himself. Rather, he and his site serve as an aggregator, linking to other news organizations — and often providing them with large volumes of traffic.
It’s unclear what precisely caused the shift in the Drudge Report’s coverage. A person close to Drudge himself told CNN in October 2019 that he had grown exasperated with the President.

Regardless, the negative coverage has apparently miffed Trump, who openly criticized Drudge on Saturday afternoon...

https://primepatriot.com/2020/04/19/conservative-news-mogul-matt-drudge-fires-back-at-trump-says-his-web-traffic-is-at-record-levels/
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Um, Matt Drudge doesn't own the Drudge Report.  China does. Matt sold it quite awhile ago.  The Hill = fake news.  Matt is an #NeverTrumper, rather like Coulter.

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Um, Matt Drudge doesn't own the Drudge Report.  China does. Matt sold it quite awhile ago.  The Hill = fake news.  Matt is an #NeverTrumper, rather like Coulter.

I knew Matt sold the site ... didn't know it was to the Chinese.  This news makes me happy I've not even peeked at the site since 2017.    happy77


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I knew Matt sold the site ... didn't know it was to the Chinese.  This news makes me happy I've not even peeked at the site since 2017.    happy77

There's no point in going there.  It's so far left, it's Pravda on steroids.

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Um, Matt Drudge doesn't own the Drudge Report.  China does. Matt sold it quite awhile ago.  The Hill = fake news.  Matt is an #NeverTrumper

Proof? Far as I can guess, Matt is just a flaming RINO homosexual that pushed what he perceived as the most gay friendly republican the last election and now is having second thoughts.
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Drudge is a shit-eating sewer dweller. His site is a screaming bastion of negativity.

I'm still waiting for his devastating video of Obama that was suppose to ensure he lost the re-election... remember that little fiasco? He's a clown.

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Proof? Far as I can guess, Matt is just a flaming RINO homosexual that pushed what he perceived as the most gay friendly republican the last election and now is having second thoughts.
I deleted that info long ago, but a search brings up this. 
BREAKING: Drudge Report Appears to Have Been Sold
by NWC
December 7, 2019, 5:28 PM


It’s no surprise to conservatives that Drudge Report has been a little different these past few months. The front page news site has taken a decidedly nevertrumper turn with extremely slanted coverage of President Trump and spreading “doom porn” for Republicans who still go to the site.

Rasmussen Reports stated this morning that there are rumors that Matt Drudge has sold the site and is in the final stages of the sale:


Citizen Free Press
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Replying to @NEWS_MAKER @DRUDGE_REPORT
Citizen Free Press is the New Drudge Report

Run by a former Lou Dobbs producerhttp://citizenfreepress.com

You're getting competition from everywhere, Matt.

15 million pageviews last month.

And growing.

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We don't think Matt is there anymore, CFP. Word is he sold, just waiting for confirmation. Now that will be a story.

BTW, you are the guy to catch.

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Well Matt Drudge seems to have confirmed it with his Twitter account homepage.

[An astute reader noted that there a site referenced here was a fan site and not a site owned by Drudge or the Drudge Report.]

Back in August, Buzzfeed News mentioned Drudge was making major changes to his advertising. Some Twitter users have questioned whether the company in charge of the advertising may have actually bought the whole thing. The key bit:

During that period, Drudge cast off his advertising representative of close to 20 years, Intermarkets, in favor of a new and unknown company, Granite Cubed. It has no record in the digital ad industry, was only registered as a company in March of this year, and lists no staff or owners on its websites. Yet it just landed one of the biggest websites in the US.

“Any time a 20-year relationship comes to an end is certainly a surprising turn of events,” said Jay Friedman, president of Goodway Group, a digital agency that specializes in programmatic media buying.

Corporate records show that Granite Cubed is owned by Margaret Otto. She and her husband, Adrian, have a business association with the Drudge family that goes back years. The couple acquired Refdesk, a reference website founded by Bob Drudge, Matt’s father, in 2017. They also operated a company that began hosting the Drudge Report in 1999 and later added Breitbart as a customer. (The couple did not answer questions about whether they still own that hosting company or if it’s still hosting Drudge or Breitbart.)

Adrian Otto is the technical director of Google Cloud. He told BuzzFeed News he is not involved with Granite Cubed. Upon joining Google in 2017 from Rackspace, he said, he “stopped operating [his] other business interests” and is no longer involved with “hosting duties” for other websites. Otto was previously listed as the technical contact in the domain registration of breitbart.com, and was thanked by name in the foreword to Andrew Breitbart’s book about Hollywood.

Citizen Free Press has more, including details on Daniel Halper, who Drudge hired for the site and who was previously involved with… The Weekly Standard.

If #NeverTrump is now in control of the Drudge Report, that would go a long way towards explaining the left-leaning editorial slant in recent months. I wonder if they planned to keep the sale secret in the hopes of using Drudge Report to influence the 2020 election and turn Republicans against Trump.

https://www.spartareport.com/2019/12/breaking-drudge-report-appears-to-have-been-sold/

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Matt Drudge sold part or all of his interest in his Report,
most likely to former investors in the Weekly Standard,
some 6 mos ago. Google had also shown interest in the past.
China had nothing to do w/this!!!
« Last Edit: May 16, 2020, 05:26:59 am by Absalom »

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From the article...
"The president did not provide any evidence to support his assertion that people were abandoning Drudge’s website en masse. Web analytics data do not support Trump’s claim that Drudge is losing web traffic amid the coronavirus crisis."

He doesn't need to provide any evidence. He just needs enough suckers to believe his claim
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His traffic is up because his website has suddenly become a go to site for lefties and Never Trumpers world wide.


Amazing to see the transformation he's made with the place. And none of it for the better.

First he went all Trump all the time much the same way Fox did back in 2015-16...that about the time I stopped going to his site and stopped watching Fox News.

Now Matt (and Fox to some extent) have swung to the entirely opposite site of the news spectrum and are sounding more like NBC and Mediaite.
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From the article...
"The president did not provide any evidence to support his assertion that people were abandoning Drudge’s website en masse. Web analytics data do not support Trump’s claim that Drudge is losing web traffic amid the coronavirus crisis."

He doesn't need to provide any evidence. He just needs enough suckers to believe his claim

Ask Dan Bongino how his website has been doing since Druge lurched left.
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"The president did not provide any evidence to support his assertion that people were abandoning Drudge’s website en masse. Web analytics data do not support Trump’s claim that Drudge is losing web traffic amid the coronavirus crisis."
If Alexa rankings are to be believed, and that's up for debate, that part I bolded isn't true. It peaked in mid-March and has fallen dramatically since then.

For once, Trump stumbled on something that was true.
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