--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > The one I linked to is pretty nice, huh? > > > Wonder why they used a different one? > > > > I don't think Drudge likes her, so he used the most unflattering one. > > She's really a very attractive woman.
I actually find her quite attractive myself. > She's also > wonderfully vivacious and extremely articulate in > the interviews I've seen. > Other than the press conference of the other day, I haven't seen her interviewed. From what I've read, I think her politics are the most horrible and most destructive. By the way, concerning Drudge's choice of photos. Certainly, he cherry-picked a most unattractive one purposely, I'll agree to that. But, of course, he did it on purpose and he would probably be the first to admit it. I remember seeing him interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN a few years ago when he was taking callers. One caller complained to him that he thought his coverage of Israel was extremely biased. Drudge's response? It was short and I think it summed up the power that the internet holds for the individual. He replied: "If you don't like it, start your own website." Of course, Drudge was just literally one guy -- himself -- sitting in his appartment and was a news junkie. He started a website where all he pretty much did was post links to stories that interested him and he put on "scoops" that people sent him or that he fished out on the internet. Not being a major news outlet he wasn't subject to the usual verification rules or other rules of journalism so he put alot of rumors -- many unsubstantiated and, it would turn out later, wrong -- that major news outlets could never put out or would wait until they got better confirmation before they would put out. As the story goes, that's why Drudge got the Lewinsky story before anybody 'cause Newsweek had it, was going to go with it, but was waiting for more verification. Drudge had the luxury of not having to wait, so he went with it and the rest is history. They say that, today, most journalists and newsrooms in America are ALL linked to Drudge and that his website is the #1 place where jouranlists go to first for news. Quite powerful for one individual...and it's pretty much still a one- man operation as I understand it (Maybe he's got one employee or something like that). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
