Ten Years Ago: Drudge Ended the Reign of the Media Gate-keepers
January 18, 2008
On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky. His story ended once and for all the gate-keeper ability, if not the mentality, of the mainstream media elite. He later said "We are all newsmen now"
...Technology means that any talented trouble maker with a modem can achieve Karl Marx's dream: ownership of the means of production and distribution. The internet requires no printing presses, delivery vans, distributors or news stands. No editorial restrictions, no proprietor, no once-a-day news cycle.
... Ironically Matt Drudge's ability to direct reader traffic means he is now probably the biggest gate-keeper to conventional journalism today... (Guido Fawkes via Martin Stabe, full story here)
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