Comments on: DRUDGE http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/drudge/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:10:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dean Esmay http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/drudge/comment-page-1/#comment-2464 Dean Esmay Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=2155#comment-2464 Ah, but I think you miss a point. Set the WABACK machine to 1990. What was Matt Drudge doing? I was there and I can tell you: not much that didn't involve spreading gossip from his friends inside the beltway. As for providing original content: find a way to make something reasonable--oh, let's say, $50,000 a year--to run OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY, and tell me: how much more original reportage do you think you could do? Dean's World currently runs what I'd say is about 2% actual news reportage that's original. Find a way that I can make a moderate income doing Dean's World, and that percentage would go up. Find a way for me to make a million a year? It'll go up further. Man, he's one of us. He's just been at it longer, and found a formula that works for him. Can we all be successful like him? That's like asking if we can all be Walter Payton. If you see what I mean. Well, no we can't, but... --- Ah, but I think you miss a point. Set the WABACK machine to 1990. What was Matt Drudge doing? I was there and I can tell you: not much that didn't involve spreading gossip from his friends inside the beltway.

As for providing original content: find a way to make something reasonable--oh, let's say, $50,000 a year--to run OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY, and tell me: how much more original reportage do you think you could do?

Dean's World currently runs what I'd say is about 2% actual news reportage that's original. Find a way that I can make a moderate income doing Dean's World, and that percentage would go up. Find a way for me to make a million a year? It'll go up further.

Man, he's one of us. He's just been at it longer, and found a formula that works for him. Can we all be successful like him? That's like asking if we can all be Walter Payton. If you see what I mean. Well, no we can't, but...

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