The last few entries have detailed the coverage The Huffington Post dedicated to a plane crash which killed four and injured two famous musicians. As part of the ongoing comparison between The Post and The Drudge Report, I will now detail Drudge's coverage of the accident.
Perhaps predictably, The Drudge Report has no means with which to search its site or access past publications. Here, again, its design is prohibitive to accessing information. It does, though, link to another third-party site which offers an archive of Drudge's frontpage. Still, this site makes clear that Drudge Report owner Matt Drudge is not associated with the site in any way.
Point is, The Drudge Report made no mention of the plane crash. It does cover other entertainment news, though the conspiracy theorists among us may posit that they only do so when it serves political interests; the frontpage currently has headlines proclaiming "Lowest-rated EMMYS ever," "Political digs slipped in," and "Tina Fey on Palin: 'I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5.'" One could theorize that these stories are included only because they reflect poorly on the Emmys and Hollywood, which, obviously, is famously liberal. Another section concerns senatorial candidate Al Franken's involvement with a sketch on Saturday Night Live that, the headline says, "suggests Sarah [Palin]'s husband guilty of incest."
Monday, September 22, 2008
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Both sites didn't really "cover it", but I found your analysis of the links Huffington chose to be on point. Drudge has been famous for "breaking news" a few times... and Huffington more for poking the major media to cover stories she thinks are important. To truly understand how a breaking story evolves, you might need to spend time on a more traditional media site, or perhaps pick a political story they both are covering?
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