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Article: Matt Drudge's Magnum Oopus?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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Matt Drudge, the Hollywood loner who has blazed a controversial
path across the Internet, cable television and radio, is invading
another establishment arena.
Drudge has just signed a deal, in the neighborhood of a half-
million bucks, with Penguin Putnam to write a book about his brief
career as journalism's digital-age troublemaker.
The 31-year-old who rode the Lewinsky scandal to worldwide fame
offered this elegant summary of his literary aspirations: "I see the
book as a middle finger to the establishment."
Of course, "Let the Future Begin" may go a bit easy on ABC, which
has given Drudge a radio platform, and Fox, which created his
Saturday talk show. And the self-proclaimed "outsider" ...