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Article: Tim Russert: Matt Drudge was appropriate guest on `Meet the Press'
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- July 21, 1998
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LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer
AP Online
07-21-1998
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ Tim Russert said he has no regrets about putting Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' 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 whether it was sound journalism to give air time to Drudge, whose online reports have included stories that have proved false.
``I make no apologies for putting Matt Drudge on a roundtable for people to see who he is, how he articulates things and what his tactics and techniques are,'' Russert said.
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