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Transcript: DIGITAL DIRT -- FACT, FICTION & CYBERSPACE
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- ABC Nightline
- Article date:
- January 8, 1998
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ANNOUNCER: January 8, 1998. MATT DRUDGE: Boy that's a blockbuster.
Hot off the press. He's leaving the country and taking all his money.
Well, there goes that one. TED KOPPEL, ABC News: (voice-over) Matt
Drudge, he's a digital age muckraker in the tradition of gossip columnists
of the past like Walter Winchell. MATT DRUDGE: I just don't do politics,
I just don't do entertainment. I go wherever the stink is. TED
KOPPEL: (voice-over) To his supporters he's simply a product of the
new media culture. SUSAN ESTRICH, Columnist: There is an extent to
which the mainstream media has created Matt Drudge and it's created
him by the insiderism, by the boosterism, by the ...