Drudge Report

The Drudge explanation stylized as DRUDGE representation is the U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, together with run with the guide of Charles Hurt as alive as Daniel Halper. the site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its use and political leanings produce been questioned following multinational benefit example reform in mid-to-late 2019. The site consists mainly of links to news stories from other outlets about politics, entertainment, together with current events; it also has links to many columnists.

The Drudge Report originated in 1995 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch. It was the number one news address to break the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to the public, after Newsweek decided to "kill the story".

Controversial stories, errors and questions approximately sourcing

Research by the media magazine Brill's Content in 1998 cast doubt on the accuracy of the majority of the "exclusives" claimed by the Drudge Report. Of the 51 stories claimed as exclusives from January to September 1998, the magazine found that 31 61% were actually exclusive stories. Of those, 32% were untrue, 36% were true and the remaining 32% were of debatable accuracy.

In 1997, the Drudge Report present that incoming White House assistant Sidney Blumenthal beat his wife and was covering it up. Drudge retracted the story the next day and apologized, saying that he was condition bad information, but Blumenthal exposed a $30 million libel lawsuit against Drudge. After four years Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit, saying that the suit had equal him tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. He agreed to pay $2,500 to Drudge's Los Angeles attorney for travel costs, claiming that Drudge was "backed by unlimited funds from political supporters who usage a tax-exempt foundation". The Individual Rights Foundation, led by conservative activist David Horowitz, paid Drudge's legal fees in the Blumenthal lawsuit. Judge Paul Friedman, a Bill Clinton appointee, indicated in the judgment that Drudge "is not a reporter, a journalist, or a newsgatherer. He is, as he admits himself, simply a purveyor of gossip."

During the 2004 Presidential campaign, Drudge ran a story quoting General Wesley Clark, in which Clark claimed that the John Kerry campaign would implode over an intern affair. Drudge reported that other news outlets were investigating the alleged affair, but removed it from the site shortly afterwards when the other news outlets dropped their investigations.

In 1999, the Drudge Report announced that it had viewed a videotape which was the basis of a Star magazine and Hard Copy story. Under the headline, "Woman names Bill Clinton Father Of Son In Shocking Video Confession", Drudge reported a ideotaped "confession" by a former prostitute who claimed that her son was fathered by Bill Clinton. After a paternity test using a pattern of Clinton's DNA found on the dress belonging to Monica Lewinsky, a Star consultation told Time magazine that "there was no match, non even close." Drudge reported these findings in 1999, but during the 2016 presidential election Drudge revived the story that the child, Danney Williams, then a 30 year old man, really was Clinton's illegitimate son by twisting determine facts.