"The Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead has formally called for an apology from US website the Drudge Report for breaking the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan." Don’t hold your breath, councillor…

"In February, for the first time ever … the Huffington Post … apparently surpassed the … Drudge Report, according to recent traffic data reports from both comScore and Nielsen Online."

"Matt Drudge … remains an elusive, mysterious figure but the internet pioneer is arguably the single most powerful journalist – though his detractors even deny that is his occupation - in the world."

Simon Bucks: "Where Drudge got the [Harry in Afghanistan] story from is a mystery - some suspect an element of the British media which wanted to break the story for its own ends."

"Journalists in America routinely keep quiet about the travel plans of government officials to Iraq and other hostile regions. …"

"On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky."

"Matt Drudge’s eponymous website should be booming. So why is site traffic dragging? comScore says the site attracted 1.5 million unique visitors last November, down 10% y/y. "

"The fact that Portfolio has taken to advertising its articles on Drudge seems very interesting to us."

They just noticed that Sky News interview with Drudge, who said: "One of the reasons I’m in London is that the media here is unparalleled. It surpasses New York, it surpasses all the cities of the world. This is the media town."

Matt Drudge on why should anyone trust a one-man website: "But this applies to corporate broadcasts … We’ve had tremendous disasters with retractions and made up stories."

A story I wrote gets Drudged…