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Matt
Drudge
The Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com) should be everyone's default opening page in their browser of choice. —Bogdan Migulski
Drudge was relatively unknown before he began his Report and made national headlines. He was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC, where he was reportedly a "loner" and a news junkie. Drudge comes from a nonreligious Jewish family with what he calls very "liberal hippie" parents. Always chafing at required education of any kind, Matt couldn’t master enough Hebrew to have his bar mitzvah – even after four, six or seven painful years in Jewish education (depending on the press interview).
For many years, Drudge took a number of odd jobs such as night counterman at a 7-Eleven convenience store, a Time/Life books phone salesman, McDonald's manager, and sales assistant at a New York City grocery store. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles where he took up residence in a small Hollywood apartment. He took a job in the gift shop of CBS studios, eventually working his way up to manager. It is here that he was apparently privy to some inside gossip, part of the inspiration for founding the Drudge Report. The original issues of the Drudge Report were part gossip and part opinion. They were distributed as an e-mail newsletter and posted to alt.showbiz.gossip Usenet forum where they were both loved and ridiculed. In 1996, the newsletter transitioned slowly from entertainment gossip to political gossip and moved from e-mail to the Web as its primary distribution mechanism.
Drudge's website gained in popularity in
the late 1990s after a series of reports in
which he beat the mainstream media by reporting first. Drudge
first received
national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp
would be
Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election.
In 1998, Drudge
gained notoriety when he was the first outlet to break the news
which later became
the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Today, his site receives millions
of page views per
day and continues to grow. In updating the site, he reportedly
monitors multiple
television news channels and a number of websites on several
computers in his
home office.
—Wikipedia
Eliza Dushku 
— George Orwell
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