The Drudge Report

[DawnCt1]

To begin with, I like the Drudge Report. I like the links, I like his breaking news. I like everything on one page for a quick glance. There is a pattern on this board however, that whenever Drudge is mentioned, he is immediately discredited. Personally, I feel that Drudge has been more accurate than that "paper of wreckage", the New York Times. So, here is a poll.

 

[The Duchess]

Drudge is my Home Page!

 

[DawnCt1]

Originally posted by The Duchess
Drudge is my Home Page!

How did you do that??

 

[beattyfamily]

Originally posted by DawnCt1
How did you do that??

In Internet Explorer, go to Tools and then Internet Options and you'll see under the General tab where you can change your Home Page to whatever you want!

I enjoy Drudge Report and I appreciate that he has links to all kinds of news. I like how he has stories you won't always see on the mainstream news.

 

[The Duchess]

While you are the Drudge Report Web Site, go to the toolbar and Click on "Tools"

Click on "Internet Options"

You will see "Home Page...you can change which page you use for your home page"

Click on "Use Current"

Click "Okay"

This will set the Drudge Report Web Site as you Home Page.

 

[Razor Roman]

Drudge is my home page too...

I don't see why people hate him SO MUCH 99.999% of what he does is link to other people's news stories anyway... I almost consider him more a portal than a news site :-D

 

[disney4us2002]

I probably read it twice a week. I don't care for the site layout. I much prefer the look of instapundit or powerlineblog. I wonder about those who so vehemently oppose the Drudge Report while still choosing to read that site "kos". Wow, the stuff there is over the top and the language makes me blush in the privacy of my own home (and alone at that!).

 

[cati]

 

[JoeThaNo1Stunna]

It has been my #1 news source since I was in 8th grade, I happen to love the simple layout. I love how people say he is biased, unreliable, etc. when 95% of what is on his page is just links other sites and stories. His few internal columns are no less reliable than any other site. I like his site because it has just the right mix of international, domestic, entertainment, and weather related stories that I don't get anywhere else.

 

[bsnyder]

Originally posted by disney4us2002
I probably read it twice a week. I don't care for the site layout. I much prefer the look of instapundit or powerlineblog. I wonder about those who so vehemently oppose the Drudge Report while still choosing to read that site "kos". Wow, the stuff there is over the top and the language makes me blush in the privacy of my own home (and alone at that!).

Powerlineblog is my personal favorite. In addition to the links, they provide great commentary. I have visited the site so often over the last couple of years that I feel like the powerline guys (Hindrocket, Trunk and Deacon) are "personal" friends. All three of these guys have impeccable credentials as well-educated and respected attorneys and it definitely shows in their reasoning and writing skills.

Drudge not infrequently has broken or non-working links. And on the occasions that he's been wrong in a breaking story (his own story, or a link to somewhere else) he never corrects the record, he just removes the story or the lnk.

The true blogs (powerline, instapundit, polipundit) are always quick to correct misinformation or mistakes.

Another favorite must-read for me is realclearpolitics.com. Not nearly as much commentary, but it's a great one-stop site for an array of daily news articles, editorials and commentary from all the leading newspapers, on the issues of the day. They also have a easy to read layout for all the latest political polling numbers.

 

[bsnyder]

One last comment on Powerlineblog, here's their latest post, and the other reason I like these guys so much....they're humble, unlike Dan "Mr. Arrogant" Rather.

To Our Readers

We have been on an incredible ride for the last week; I can't even remember all of the radio, print and television interviews we've done. Every morning another batch of op-eds credits us, along with other bloggers like Charles Johnson and the Freepers, with bringing down the CBS News empire. I'm told that tonight they were showing screen shots of Power Line on the NBC Nightly News.

That's fun and gratifying, of course, but we don't want you to think that it's going to our heads. I was on the Hugh Hewitt show tonight, and Hugh asked whether I was surprised at the hate we were getting from the establishment media. I said not at all; on the other hand, I was surprised at how much credit we were getting from so many sources. Too much credit: as I told Hugh, the real credit belongs to our readers, not us. We knew nothing about military protocol, type fonts of the '70s, when General Staudt retired, and so on. The power of the blogosphere (more properly, the internet) does not lie in a handful of bloggers with well-read sites. It resides in the hundreds of thousands, or millions, of smart, well-informed, engaged readers who, collectively, have amazing knowledge and expertise in just about any area you can think of. What is new is the ability to bring together these disparate sources of knowledge, analyze them, and disseminate them in real time. We help to do this, but on a big, fast-breaking story like this one, the real impetus comes from our readers--a point we make in every interview we give.

Along with the thanks, an apology. Over the last week, we have been absolutely inundated with emails. This was great, and we were able to use some of them to push the CBS story forward. But they overflowed our inbox, and at times stopped coming in until we could clear out more space. We tried to read them all, but I'm sure we missed some, and we couldn't begin to respond to more than a handful. Our site was actually down, briefly, yesterday because of the bottleneck in our email account.

So please don't be offended if you've emailed us and we haven't responded; it just hasn't been humanly possible. At the same time, don't stop sending us your thoughts and information, as emails from our readers are where we get lots of our best stuff.

So, thanks again to the people who make the blogosphere the powerful force it has become: our readers.

 

[dmadman43]

Originally posted by Razor Roman
Drudge is my home page too...

I don't see why people hate him SO MUCH 99.999% of what he does is link to other people's news stories anyway... I almost consider him more a portal than a news site :-D

Because his site generally contains accurate information that many on the left don't want to hear or believe. So, their only recourse is to shoot the messenger.

Agreed, his site is more a portal than a news site. The people that don't like him don't understand that.

 

[dmadman43]

Originally posted by disney4us2002
I probably read it twice a week. I don't care for the site layout. I much prefer the look of instapundit or powerlineblog. I wonder about those who so vehemently oppose the Drudge Report while still choosing to read that site "kos". Wow, the stuff there is over the top and the language makes me blush in the privacy of my own home (and alone at that!).

Technically, Drudges' site is not a blog.

as for blogs, in addition to the ones mentioned, I also like http://terran.godmonkey.com/

 

[tar heel]

I doubt if Drudge would mind being called a "muckraker." A "mud raker," on the other hand . . .

For the record, I think he IS a mud raker as well as a muckraker.