It’s no secret that for years, the Drudge Report drove conservative (and often mainstream) media news cycles. If Drudge was talking about it, you could bet everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to PJ Media was also discussing it. In fact, there was a symbiotic relationship between Drudge’s aggregated links and the pages of most conservative media outlets. Pretty much everyone was either getting story prompts from Drudge or sending him stories (often via AOL Instant Messenger) hoping he’d link them.
Never had a Drudge link. My first big link way back when came from Little Green Footballs to a story on a meetup held by local Islamists and Liberal-Left types.
I was fortunate to receive several from Instapundit over the years, the first being a story on the TDSB teaching that only white people could be racist. This was long before anyone mentioned CRT or DEI. Heady times indeed.
