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Article: Tim Russert: Matt Drudge was appropriate guest on `Meet the Press'
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- July 20, 1998
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AP Online
07-20-1998
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ ``Meet the Press'' host Tim Russert says he has no regrets about putting Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge on the NBC show after Drudge broke the Monica Lewinsky story.
Russert, speaking Monday to the Television Critics Association, said he would invite Drudge back if he again became part of a story.
He was asked if it was sound journalism to give air time to Drudge, whose online reports include stories that have proved false.
``I make no apologies for putting ...