October 5, 2001<\/b> Want the latest news on the (apparently) pending attack on Afghanistan? NYTimes.com offers the carefully researched article titled \u201cPowell Says U.S. Had Signs, but Not Clear Ones, of a Plot.\u201d FT.com tells us \u201cNato given evidence of bin Laden’s involvement.” LeMonde.fr offers “La violence s’impose \u00e0 Gaza.” Over at CNN.com, self-proclaimed server of 24-hour news, the headline “Taliban issues death threats” hasn\u2019t changed for six hours. <\/p>\n
Is this the latest news? Let\u2019s visit www.drudgereport.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n Clicking brings this news: \u201cSatellite ‘picks out bin Laden caves’…\u201d which links to an up-to-the-minute Times of London article with the details. Reload and… wait, here\u2019s the Washington Times\u2019 headline and link to \u201cU.S. targets 23 terrorist camps in Afghanistan…\u201d <\/p>\n Drudge \u201cwill find the link before you do,\u201d says journalist Ken\u00a0Layne<\/a>, himself a fast and furious newshound.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Layne who has noticed that Drudge is THE clearinghouse for the breaking news. According to the latest figures from Neilson\/Netratings, DrudgeReport.com rang up 10,759,000 pages impressions for the week ending September 16.<\/p>\n That puts Drudge\u2019s site ahead of the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today\u2026 and every US news site except Time\u00a0Magazine<\/a> and MSNBC<\/a>. Click for the top\u00a0twenty\u00a0page-spinners<\/a>. <\/p>\n Drudge inverts conventional web wisdom. Consider the odds against his success :<\/p>\n And this is what makes Drudge great. He knows what the public wants — news — and works tirelessly to deliver it. We can rely on him. <\/p>\n With galaxies of news and opinion available online, Drudge knows it’s better to build a telescope than another solar system.<\/p>\n When will someone log the echoes of September 11 documented in the local press? <\/p>\n Read a Cornwall paper\u2019s obituary of a local\u00a0boy<\/a> who left home at 17, became an American, fought in Vietnam and died in the World Trade Center as head of Morgan Stanley\u2019s security team. Or, for a lighter aside, there\u2019s the Lincolnshire\u00a0man<\/a> who is selling his nightclub and \u201cplanning to fill his new warehouse at Stallingborough with a whole range of military supplies, including armoured cars, military-style hard hats, gas masks, survival suits and camouflage netting \u2013 in preparation for war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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