Count Matt Drudge Out

Slate is featuring an article by Jack Shafer to not count out Matt Drudge:

What's most remarkable about the Drudge Report after all these years is how efficient and useful it remains in the age of podcasts, Web video, RSS feeds, animations, interactive charts, interactive maps, slide shows, Digg buttons, Facebook widgets, comment pages, change-text-size buttons, print options, and all the rest. Drudge's idea of sexing up his one-page-fits-all-sizes site is adding a plain-wrap version for mobile devices. Maybe the Drudge Report derives its efficiency and usefulness from its lack of podcasts, Web video, RSS feeds, animations, interactive charts, interactive maps, slideshows, Digg buttons, Facebook widgets, comment pages, change-text-size buttons, and print options!

I don't buy it, personally. I used to check the Drudge Report at least 3 or 4 times a week, but recently I have stopped for all the same reasons people say Drudge is dead: his choice of articles has gone from provocative to irrelevant to almost offensive.

I realize that Drudge has a right-wing stance, and I was always fine with that. But this during the past few months of the election cycle, his choice of stories was mostly boring, sometimes just plain stupid. Then on election day, he featured a story at the top of his page about how two Black Panthers showed up at one polling station to ensure that people had the right to vote for Obama. It became obvious to me at that point that he was just a mouthpiece for Fox News types, who wanted to stoke racial fears against Obama. So I was done. And I hope the media and the left is done too.