The Power of the Drudge Report: Insights from Media Insiders

how they can get in with drudge or get their content onto drudge uh Tucker Carlson told me this story of him uh you know when he launched the Daily Caller I was a reporter there in those early days uh we couldn't get on the Drudge Report it just wasn't happening for us and I know that it bothered Tucker cuz he had you know we were getting Scoops we were writing stories that were we thought were drudge worthy why Matt drudge would never link to any articles on The Daily Caller for the most Petty of reasons reached out to you to have a chat we met at a Starbucks and he he said hey man I cannot get on the drugge report I don't know what what to do and you know we're we're trying to start this big operation Matt was really a kingmaker I mean if you if you got links on the page you know you might triple your page views for the day just by a single link you know if they were getting 300,000 they might get a million page views by getting the top story on the drugs report