Until this week I had no idea that the drudgereport.com was considered a blog. According to the wikipedia entry a blog = Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
the drudgereport.com is news outlet. it may not pull the best stories, but it gives its readers headlines of current news stories. Unlike a blog there is no place to leave comments, and the entries all link to newspaper stories, never as far I know have any of the links been to other blogs.
Today the Drudgereport is promoting/displaying many of the same stories that are on Cnn.com, Foxnews.com, and the NYtimes.com.
They all have up stories about the potential government shutdown, the oil crisis, the first family vacation, the wars and rebellions going on across the arab world. Unlike the NYTimes and other media outlets the drudgereport.com also have up an article about Israel's irondome and the mortar and katyusha's falling left and right in Israel's south.
In a way I am thankful to Monica Lewinsky for putting this site on the radar, and enabling curious news followers a broader variety of news subjects.
Why exactly is it considered a blog? I don't really understand the classification!?!
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