“The Internet is going to save the news business.” – Matt Drudge, June 2, 1998
Today, on the 15th anniversary of visionary Matt Drudge’s
speech to the National Press Club, his prophetic words haunt
once-flourishing segments of the news industry.
According to the Pew Research Center for People & the Press,
more Americans now get news from the Internet rather than radio or
newspapers. Likewise, Pew notes that TV news is “increasingly
vulnerable, as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news
consumers.”
It’s been almost two decades since Drudge crashed the news scene and
turned the Old Media on its head – causing many mainstream newshounds to
sneer at the thought of an amateur with wild instinct and an
unpretentious news website threatening their media empire.
Drudge, occasionally dressed in only his underwear, rocked the news
world from a small Hollywood apartment accompanied only by his black
stray feline, aptly named “Cat.”
Read more: http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/news-legend-disrupted-like-a-nuclear-bomb/
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