How Drudge Broke the News | Interview: Chris Moody

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jamie is joined by Chris Moody, a journalism professor at Appalachian State University and the host of the Finding Matt Drudge podcast, to explore the career of Matt Drudge and the imprint he's left on American news media. The Agenda: —The birth of a rumor —Who runs the Drudge Report? —Drudge's betrayal of Trump —Getting that Drudge link —The vanishing Show Notes: -Watch this episode on YouTube —Finding Matt Drudge on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slack presents hands-free conversations.
0:03.2	Hello, car commuter, dog walker, stroller pusher.
0:06.5	Your hands are busy.
0:07.9	It's why we created huddles in Slack, because sometimes talking is easier than typing.
0:12.7	Huddle without the hassle.
0:14.4	In Slack.
0:15.4	Welcome to the dispatch podcast.
0:17.4	This is Jamie Weinstein.
0:18.9	My guest today is Chris Moody, and he's on for an interesting reason. It's kind of a different type of episode. Chris is a longtime
0:27.8	political journalist who has written and worked for Yahoo News, Vice, The Daily Coller. He is also the host of a new podcast series called
0:36.5	Finding Matt Drudge, produced by I Hart Media and produced by my production company,
0:42.1	JMW Productions.
0:43.6	We brought Chris Moody on board
0:45.3	when I first came up with this concept
0:47.3	and he is doing an incredible job.
0:49.0	And the story of this podcast is trying literally
0:52.0	to find Matt Drudge while also telling the story of
0:55.2	Matt Drudge and how he changed the media for good or ill depending on your
0:59.4	perspective and trying to answer some burning questions no one seems to know.
1:03.7	One is why did he ultimately go underground?
1:06.3	Two is why did he turn against Donald Trump in 2020
1:09.6	after his sight voice so vociferously supporting him in 2016 and whether he still owns the site at all.
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