Drudge mystery: The brand lives, but who runs it and where is Matt?

By World Tribune on October 25, 2019

[Editors’ Note: Until the mystery is solved, WorldTribune is offering a new feature: Drudge Break!

“What happened to Matt Drudge?”

Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft spoke for thousands when he asked the question in a recent blog post after news from leftist and anti-Trump sources began being featured prominently on the Drudge Report.

Saying that the Drudge site had taken a “pro-impeachment slant,” Hoft wrote, “Dear Matt Drudge — Please come home.”

So, has Drudge had a falling out with the White House? Is he just angling for clicks? Has he gone further into reclusion and delegated the site to others? Or has he sold out and allowed a Google off-shoot to drive a a media giant that now overshadows the once dominant news organizations that it has linked to since its inception?

Related: Matt Drudge’s speech at the National Press Club 20 summers ago: ‘Let the future begin’, June 2, 2018

The famously reclusive Drudge attended two White House Correspondents Dinners in 2000 and 2001 and then dropped out of public view.

WorldTribune Editor Robert Morton, then also a senior editor at The Washington Times, invited him to those two dinners. “The late Andrew Breitbart was his assistant in those years and when I last saw Andrew in 2008, he said he had not seen Matt in years,” Morton said.

Drudge’s site has remained pretty much the same since its rise to prominence during the Clinton impeachment drama.

But a significant change occurred over the summer when the Drudge Report dropped its advertising representative of close to 20 years, Intermarkets, in favor of a new and unknown company Granite Cubed.

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