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(US News)   Yesterday morning, Associated Press misquoted Alan Greenspan as saying a recession was coming. Yesterday afternoon, the stock market tanked. This, of course, is all Matt Drudge's fault   (usnews.com) divider line
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Skeptack
2007-02-28 3:33:56 PM  
But despite the inflammatory Drudge headline- which, in all fairness, linked to an Associated Press story with that same title - the Maestro was hardly so definitive as Drudge made him out to be.


How in the hell do reporters get away with writing stuff like that?
 
ChairmanKaga
2007-02-28 4:55:43 PM  
Matt Drudge is a ghey.
 
krelborne
2007-02-28 5:22:33 PM  
I saw a link to this article on TF just before the crash. I blame Drew Curtis.
 
DistendedPendulusFrenulum
2007-02-28 5:46:27 PM  
That's preposterous. Someone forgot to blame the liberals!

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rockneedsasavior
2007-02-28 6:34:25 PM  
I've got a teacher who, sometimes in place of teaching, will sit there and browse The Drudge Report.
 
heinousjay
2007-02-28 6:35:04 PM  
why give this idiot that much credit?
 
rppp01a
2007-02-28 6:35:25 PM  
ChairmanKaga: Matt Drudge is a ghey.

No. He had ONE scoop in his entire life and has tried to build something off of it. He's failed. He is irrelavant. I do like his police lights, however. They are funny.
 
maxheck
2007-02-28 6:36:11 PM  
Yeah, and at 2:00pm yesterday the DJIA's servers crashed, but I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.
 
Lane83
2007-02-28 6:36:31 PM  
I'm comfortable with scapegoating Drudge.
 
the_chief
2007-02-28 6:37:47 PM  
Drudge kicks ass.
 
Mike_Bolton
2007-02-28 6:38:28 PM  
This just in: Matt Drudge adds drop shadow to his Title. ... developing....
 
triple
2007-02-28 6:38:51 PM  
He's failed. He is irrelavant.

Yea, hes only like the most trafficed news site this side of CNN.com.

If drudge is a failure, what do you define as success?
 
veedeevadeevoodee
2007-02-28 6:39:21 PM  
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mrtimo
2007-02-28 6:39:26 PM  
Yes, and according to Fark, the market crashed because Todd Bertuzzi was dealt to the Red Wings.
 
NeoKhan
2007-02-28 6:40:52 PM  
The problem with Matt Drudge is that when he links to articles, people read them.

That is all.
 
retro128
2007-02-28 6:41:44 PM  
Yeah, a guy who plays "let's pretend" by dressing up as a 50's news guy is responsible for the market crash. Please.

Blame China, and then the institutional investors. When China's stock exchange nosedived, the lemming investors as always started selling everything. In two weeks they'll likely have put the money all back.

/Hates the investor lemmings
//Goes long
 
Gypzi
2007-02-28 6:42:20 PM  
Fark that fool.
 
Johnny Savage
2007-02-28 6:42:47 PM  
Isn't Drudge just Fark without all of us dumbasses giving our opinions?

/Fark lite
//Farkito
///Unfinished Fark
 
vincent_blackshadow
2007-02-28 6:42:50 PM  
"...along with a weak durable goods report and the plunge in the Chinese stock market"

one outta three ain't good, jimmy. nice english on that shot
 
tiiger [OhFark]
2007-02-28 6:43:23 PM  
mrtimo

The TSX probably tanked because of that. Don't sell the Bertuzzi short, it wouldn't be the first time he's caused something to free fall into a coma.
 
SlothB77
2007-02-28 6:43:32 PM  
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maxheck
2007-02-28 6:45:01 PM  
triple:

Yea, hes only like the most trafficed news site this side of CNN.com.

If drudge is a failure, what do you define as success?

McDonalds gets more traffic than a good deli, and the Weekly World News gets more traffic than Scientific American.

So perhaps there are different metrics for success.
 
desolationrow
2007-02-28 6:48:57 PM  
I don't care, as long as it's not my fault. At least, I don't think it's my fault, although it probably is somehow. Damnit, it is my fault, sorry.
 
JohnBigBootay
2007-02-28 6:50:03 PM  
I wouldn't inflate Drudge's ego any more than it already is by intimating that he could affect anything. The only thing that's his fault is that he's an asshole.
 
BravadoGT
2007-02-28 6:52:42 PM  
Blaming Drudge here, is yet again, is a classic case of shooting the messenger....

Where's the US News and World Report on the shabby quality of reporting that the AP, LA Times, NY Times has been regularly delivering?
 
skinink [OhFark]
2007-02-28 6:55:05 PM  
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Developing...
 
DoktorSeven
2007-02-28 6:55:29 PM  
Regardless, it wouldn't surprise me that something like this can happen, given that stocks are just a load of lies and bullshiat that creates a shaky foundation on which our economy is built on. Do so much as touch it and things come crashing down.

Stocks, and by extension, our economy, are lies and empty promises made by rich people to make themselves even richer. It's a horrible system that will screw us over completely one day.
 
IXI Jim IXI
2007-02-28 6:56:06 PM  
maxheck: McDonalds gets more traffic than a good deli, and the Weekly World News gets more traffic than Scientific American.

I'd trust McDonald's over Matt Drudge any day.
 
IXI Jim IXI
2007-02-28 6:56:42 PM  
BravadoGT: Blaming Drudge here, is yet again, is a classic case of shooting the messenger....

In some cases, there's nothing wrong with putting a few bullets into messenger...
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 6:57:47 PM  
BravadoGT:

For example? Name me a good article by Drudge, and I'll give you ten by The Times. Name me a bad one by The Times, and I'll give you another by Drudge.

The Times (properly) attributed this slump to the Asian markets, not to some vague comments by Greenspan. Seems they got the story right.
 
triple
2007-02-28 7:00:31 PM  
McDonalds gets more traffic than a good deli, and the Weekly World News gets more traffic than Scientific American.

So perhaps there are different metrics for success.

No, there aren't different metrics for success. Your ego is apparently large enough that you feel you can dictate whos successful and who isn't based on your personal opinion, when the only metric that matters on the net is traffic and influence and matt has both.
 
Welcome to the Machine
2007-02-28 7:00:44 PM  
mmmmmmm McDonald's
 
FTGodWin
2007-02-28 7:02:00 PM  
Wait just a minute. Greenspin tells the truth for the first time since 1967, and now they tell me it was a misquote?!?!

Well, if that don't make it officially drink-thirty, nothing will.
 
Befuddled
2007-02-28 7:03:21 PM  
Isn't anyone else somewhat alarmed at how fragile the whole mess is, that one person saying that it is all about to collapse can make it collapse? Shouldn't there be something more substantial to the financial markets?
 
IXI Jim IXI
2007-02-28 7:05:53 PM  
triple: No, there aren't different metrics for success. Your ego is apparently large enough that you feel you can dictate whos successful and who isn't based on your personal opinion, when the only metric that matters on the net is traffic and influence and matt has both.

By that metric, he's out-traficked and out-metricked by a good number of porn sites...
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 7:07:21 PM  
triple:

...when the only metric that matters on the net is traffic and influence and matt has both.

If that's all you care about, then yes, you're right.

If that's all you care about, it also explains why you're a fan of Drudge. maxheck was distinguishing between quality and popularity. Apparently quality doesn't matter to you.
 
Hexar
2007-02-28 7:08:58 PM  
I didn't say it was Matt Drudge's fault, I said I was going to blame him...
 
maxheck
2007-02-28 7:09:43 PM  
triple:

No, there aren't different metrics for success. Your ego is apparently large enough that you feel you can dictate whos successful and who isn't based on your personal opinion, when the only metric that matters on the net is traffic and influence and matt has both.

Riiiiight... and if pure traffic is all that matters, than any crack whore is a better woman than your wife or G/F.

I'm sorry, but I hope you're trying to be absurd here.
 
Egalitarian
2007-02-28 7:10:31 PM  
I thought a selloff in China's market caused the recent global stock crash. Selloff was due to fears of government crackdown on illegal trading and possibly imposing a capital gains tax.

\wait, what?
 
itdood
2007-02-28 7:10:53 PM  
automated trading people. read up on it.
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 7:14:53 PM  
triple:

Actually, you might be interested to know that Alexa claims Drudge gets less than half as much traffic as The Times, about a fourth as much as CNN, about a tenth the views as Google News, about as much traffic as Slashdot, and a fourth that of Digg.

Yeah. Way to go, Matt. You're more popular than some 14 year old girl's MySpace blog.
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 7:20:57 PM  
Other News sites with more traffic than Drudge include:

The BBC
CNET
Fox News
The Washington Post
GO.com
MSN.com
Yahoo!

Of course, that's not even taking into account traditional viewership and readership. CNN's television viewers dwarf Drudge's visitors. The Times's subscribers dwarf Drudge's visitors. The BBC's listeners dwarf Drudge's visitors. The AP's syndicators dwarf Drudge's visitors.

If popularity is the sole measure of success, Drudge has a lot of work to do.
 
TwistedFark
2007-02-28 7:29:03 PM  
I don't know about this, but do you know what is Matt Drudge's fault? The fact that you can't find a decent gay hairdresser anymore.

They're all becoming "reporters".

/Shut up Matt and color my hair!
//Ohh, you like it when I talk like that, don't you?
 
saleratus774
2007-02-28 7:31:04 PM  
KrispyKringle
get off your high horse, Drudge pwns Fark and if you are so t'd off that Drudge has influence on news coverage and stories then start your own site from scratch and hope to do better. Drudge is the american dream
/ya i said it
 
pearls before swine
2007-02-28 7:31:43 PM  
99% of people who saw that headline did not see it at drudge, I would bet. I saw it on yahoo, which, I believe, still get a few more views than drudge. Idiotic conclusion.

The idea that the headline caused the crash is intriguing, though.
 
ShillinTheVillain
2007-02-28 7:31:52 PM  
DoktorSeven

Hurrrrrrrrr
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 7:34:09 PM  
saleratus774:

You were joking, right?

Fark isn't a news site. I get my news from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Reuters, and the Financial Times, primarily. That's a pretty high standard for Drudge to compete with. Oh, and the readership of any of those is higher than Drudge's.
 
blueknight
2007-02-28 7:34:38 PM  
matt drudge plays the skin flute
 
Mooha
2007-02-28 7:35:24 PM  
Everybody's hatin' on Drudge, but who doesn't hit the site at least once a week? Day...?
 
KrispyKringle
2007-02-28 7:36:05 PM  
Mooha

Everybody's hatin' on Drudge, but who doesn't hit the site at least once a week? Day...?

Um. I don't.
 
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