Words matter. These are the best Matt Drudge Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn’t get into makeup fast enough.
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I’m concerned.
I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I’m not sure there is anything left.
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.
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
I don’t necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
I cover media people the way they cover politicians.
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
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?
I never think too far into the future. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow’s news.
The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
There’s nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
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.
I’m not mean.
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
There won’t be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn’t scare me.
The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They’re working in tandem.
I’ve written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
There’s a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
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.
Because I have success, it doesn’t mean I’m part of the mainstream. I’m still an outsider.
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.
