Matt Drudge: world's most powerful journalist: Welcome to the world of the Drudge Report. A world in which the successor to Walter Cronkite and Bob Woodward is a loner with no university education or journalistic background. He is now surreptitiously courted by the media and political elites that once derided him but now fear he has the power to change the course of an American election.
Act.: não foi Drudge quem revelou a história do princípe Harry no Afeganistão: "The story was leaked first by an Australian magazine (on January 15th!), the German newspaper Bild, and by Drudge Report in the U.S."
Razões? Media's embargo on "Harry's war" sparks debate: In a series of meetings at the Ministry of Defence late last year, British media and selected international outlets agreed not to report Harry's deployment in exchange for getting regular pictures, video and text of his day-to-day activities once the planned four-month assignment was completed. [...]
Until the U.S. Drudge Report blog picked it up.
"Once Drudge had it, it went global and the agreement was basically over," the Ministry of Defence said on Friday.
Por cá: Adelino Cunha demitiu-se do cargo de director da revista Focus: O jornalista, que assumiu a direcção da Focus no final de Dezembro passado, resolveu deixar a revista e «mudar de vida», garantindo que «não houve nenhuma razão específica para deixar agora o cargo».
