Quote: (10-10-2015 11:03 AM)ManAbout Wrote:
He rails against corporate control of the media and talks about creating your own content independent of these influences.
Yet, his website looks like something put together by a 5th grader,with zero original content and links to the same media assets that he is so angry about. It is mostly just links to Yahoo, NY Times, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter and the like.
It seems a little disingenuous, and hypocritical.
Looks can be deceiving.
His site is pure curation. Curated by some of the heaviest hitters in media. Andrew Breitbart once held that role, and went on to create his own successful media company. His curation makes or breaks the news.
The curation is really the secret sauce to Drudge. Sure the design is old. He just never updated a winning formula. Was that a mistake? No. The site continues to be one of the most popular on the web. The curation drives the narrative. They explain everything in the video.
There are several reasons this is happening to Drudge.
1) The main stream media wants to take him out, because they live and die by his traffic every single day. He is the news traffic cop. And that bugs these guys. Drudge determines where the eyeballs go every day. By the millions. Their fate is in Drudges hands every day, and for this, they will lobby Congress until he is gone.
2) Political motivations, on both sides of the aisle. Not much else to say there.
3) Google. Media companies were successful in prodding governments in Europe to prosecute Google for being a monopoly. In an effort to avoid that in the future, Google is in a tail spin doing everything they can to avoid this in the US. News Aggregator sites are the first to get the ax. There is now a precedent for publishers to say that through news aggregator sites, Google is complicate in the theft of content from major publishers. This is literally what they did in Europe, and Google got pinched.
In short, its the main stream media and politicians looking to take him out. Now that Google has been damaged in Europe, they are motivated to shut down his type of site.