{"id":130966,"date":"2019-10-30T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130966"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:40:40","slug":"drudge-sold-out-to-big-tech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130966","title":{"rendered":"Drudge sold out to <i>Big Tech<\/i>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-10.29.52-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130964\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-10.29.52-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-10.29.52-AM.png 803w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-10.29.52-AM-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-10.29.52-AM-768x530.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investment Watch<\/p>\n<p><i>If you\u2019ve noticed that @DRUDGE_REPORT isn\u2019t the same any more, you\u2019re not alone.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A friend writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cRon, what is going on with @DRUDGE and his recently ending his decade long independent advertising agency for his website?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cHe recently signed on with a Google affiliated company, which purchased Matt Drudge\u2019s father\u2019s website, RefDesk, as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFrankly, I\u2019m concerned this is the sole reason Drudge went mainstream and to the left: to satisfy his new advertising agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe agency is called Granite Cubed. The timing of when all this went down is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a reader of the site daily for 15 years. His entire message, his \u2018tone and timbre\u2019 shifted \u2013 full-on establishment approved at the same time the deal was made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I asked my friend if I could share this, he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure. Buzzfeed mentioned this months ago, but it got very little play. The Buzzfeed story on it was, oddly, and for the first time ever, a fluff piece for Drudge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuzzfeed and its progeny have never once written about Drudge without a few gratuitous hits mocking his personal life or political views. Until now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you&#39;ve noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DRUDGE_REPORT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DRUDGE_REPORT<\/a> isn&#39;t the same any more, you&#39;re not alone. <\/p>\n<p>A friend writes:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ron, what is going on with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DRUDGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DRUDGE<\/a> and his recently ending his decade long independent advertising agency for his website? &gt;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonColeman\/status\/1179897531200917505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Drudge did an interview with AJ where he told us exactly that<br \/>\nThat he has to play under certain guidelines or bad shit was going to happen to him and his<br \/>\nIt was before AJ was censored, Drudge was jsut a voice in the interview they didnt show his face<br \/>\nYou should be able to google the interview where he spoke about it<br \/>\nIt was a few years ago when he did it<\/p>\n<p>I think this was the interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkQEnTBTXIY\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>that was October 6, 2015 when Matt visited him.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a transcript of the video:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"autohyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/noworldorder.com\/2016\/01\/16\/matt-drudge-alex-jones-interview-full-transcript\/\">noworldorder.com\/2016\/01\/16\/matt-drudge-alex-jones-interview-full-transcript\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my Drudge Replacement.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"autohyperlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citizenfreepress.com\/\">www.citizenfreepress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>h\/t Voluntaryist<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentwatchblog.com\/drudge-sold-out-to-big-tech\/\">https:\/\/www.investmentwatchblog.com\/drudge-sold-out-to-big-tech\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}