THE NETLY NEWS: THE THRILL OF DRUDGE WORK

It's Wednesday afternoon, and Matt Drudge is speed-dialing. in 30 minutes, he's made 20 phone calls trying to nail down the latest hot tip. A national newsweekly, he's been told, is doing a cover story on yet another major TV personality coming out of the closet. If Drudge could have found anything even resembling confirmation, he would have run with it. One press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There's nothing an avid Drudgester likes more than...

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