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    Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at r

    Conservative news mogul Matt Drudge fires back at Trump, says his web traffic is at record levels


    By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
    Updated 7:11 PM ET, Sat April 18, 2020







    New York (CNN)In a rare statement, Matt Drudge, the prominent conservative news mogul, refuted President Trump's Saturday claim that traffic to his website has plummeted as its coverage has grown more critical of him.

    "The past 30 days has been the most eyeballs in Drudge Report's 26 year-history," Drudge said in an email to CNN. "Heartbreaking that it has been under such tragic circumstances."


    Matt Drudge, an influential figure in conservative media, sours on Trump as he faces impeachment


    The Drudge Report, founded in 1995, is arguably the most influential conservative news website. Drudge rarely reports or writes stories himself. Rather, he and his site serve as an aggregator, linking to other news organizations — and often providing them with large volumes of traffic.


    Drudge supported Trump during the 2016 presidential election and in the early days of the Trump presidency was even a frequent visitor to the White House. But since the summer of 2019, the Drudge Report has spotlighted a significant amount of negative news about the Trump.

    It's unclear what precisely caused the shift in the Drudge Report's coverage. A person close to Drudge himself told CNN in October 2019 that he had grown exasperated with the President.


    Regardless, the negative coverage has apparently miffed Trump, who openly criticized Drudge on Saturday afternoon.

    Trump retweeted an attack from a far-right blogger who argued Drudge's coverage of the coronavirus has been misleading and sensationalistic. "I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long ago, as have many others,"

    Trump commented. "People are dropping like flies!"

    The president did not provide any evidence to support his assertion that people were abandoning Drudge's website en masse. Web analytics data do not support Trump's claim that Drudge is losing web traffic amid the coronavirus crisis.

    In fact, page view data directly from the Drudge Report's server, provided to CNN by a person with access to the numbers, shows no significant traffic dips since January 2019.

    The data shows a significant traffic surge in March, up to 1.2 billion page views from 781 million page views in February.

    Additionally, data from Quantcast, a web analytics firm, showed that the Drudge Report had 201 million visits in November, 2016, a high-traffic month given it was the climax of the 2016 presidential election.

    In the last 30 days, however, the Drudge Report has received 228 million visits, according to Quantcast.

    Drudge is especially influential in conservative media circles, and has the ability to shape or even create news cycles.

    For years his website helped set the conservative news agenda and worked as a gravitational force, drawing other media outlets to his preferred narrative. The power Drudge wields has led observers to characterize him as the de-facto assignment editor of the conservative media.

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    Looks like ALIPAC called this schism correctly back in July of 2019 as you can see from our email alert copy here...


    https://www.alipac.us/f8/major-shift...change-374664/

    Trump is going to hurt his reelection campaign even more attacking Matt Drudge and Drudge Report.

    I don't know Matt Drudge but i feel I know him well enough to know he is a stand up guy and not the type to bow to this kind of bullying from the bully pulpit!

    Matt Drudge should be frustrated and disatisfied with President Donald Trump because many of us who elected him feel the same way.
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