Matt Drudge Quotes

#1. The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

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#2. Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

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#3. I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.

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#4. There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

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#5. Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties ...

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#6. With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

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#7. There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

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#8. If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

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#9. I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

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#10. I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

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#11. It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

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#12. The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

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#13. I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.

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#14. There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

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#15. Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

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#16. I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

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#17. All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

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#18. I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

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#19. A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

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#20. Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

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#21. Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

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#22. Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

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#23. Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

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#24. There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

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#25. The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

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#26. I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

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#27. I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

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#28. I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

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#29. If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

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#30. I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

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#31. You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

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#32. We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

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