A biography for Matt Drudgehasn’t been written yet.
“There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.”
“I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.”
“I cover media people the way they cover politicians.”
“There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.”
“Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.”
“Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.”
“I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.”
“I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.”
“Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.”
“We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.”