In the spring of 2005, when asked about Arianna Huffington’s plan to launch a news-aggregating blog to compete with the Drudge Report, Matthew Drudge did not seem too impressed.

“I don’t think that need is there,” he told The Observer. “I think I fill that need.”

And while he allowed that Ms. Huffington had “tons of charm and humor,” he questioned whether she and her coterie of boldface names had the stamina to compete.  read more »

Matthew Drudge is reporting that Don Imus has finished an eight-figure, multimillion-dollar deal to return to the airwaves on WABC.

According to Mr. Drudge, Mr. Imus starts broadcasting Dec. 3.

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In the past two days, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz has been getting a lot of attention for his “scoop” about Dan Rather.

But the anecdote, published today in his book Reality Show, is old news.

In Mr. Kurtz’s book, he writes that former CBS anchor threatened to release a document to The New York Times if his now-widely-discredited National Guard story did not run on 60 Minutes.  read more »