Matt Drudge

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Matt Drudge is an American journalist, commentator, and the creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a highly influential news aggregation website. Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, in 1966, Drudge worked various retail and odd jobs before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1980s. While working in the gift shop of CBS studios, he began gathering industry gossip and news, which he eventually started distributing as an email newsletter in 1995. The Drudge Report transitioned to a website and gained international prominence in January 1998, when Drudge became the first to report that Newsweek had killed a story concerning an affair between President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This scoop catapulted Drudge and his website into the mainstream media spotlight, permanently altering the landscape of political journalism and digital media. Over the decades, Drudge established himself as a powerful figure in media and politics, with the ability to drive national news cycles through a single link on his minimalist homepage. Despite his immense influence, Drudge has maintained a notoriously reclusive lifestyle, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. He has also hosted a syndicated radio show and briefly hosted a television program on Fox News in the late 1990s.

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