MATT DRUDGE
Name: Matt Drudge
Born: 27 October 1966 Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.
Matthew Nathan Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is the proprietor of the Drudge
Report website.
Matthew Drudge, raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC, is an only
child. His parents are Jewish liberal-Democrats who both worked for the federal
government. His father Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the
reference site www.refdesk.com and his mother, a former staff attorney for
Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six. Drudge went to live with his mother.
He had few friends but was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan. In
his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge reports that he "failed his Bar Mitzvah", and
graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, thus
giving himself, in his words, a "more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post
at 7-Eleven".
He was arrested at age 15, on June 18, 1981, for making harassing telephone
calls. After the arrest, Drudge went to live with his father on a farm on the
eastern shore of Maryland. But before long his father sent Drudge back to
Washington to live with his unemployed mother. Drudge was then placed in
psychiatric treatment with Jewish Social Services. It was recommended that
the boy be sent to a boarding school, "and if not the last choice will be a
foster home" (from court papers).
Drudge was unknown before he began the Drudge Report. For many years, he took
odd jobs such as night counterman at a 7-Eleven convenience store, telemarketer
for Time/Life books, McDonald's manager, and sales assistant at a New York City
grocery store. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles where he took up residence in a
small Hollywood apartment. He took a job in the gift shop of CBS studios,
eventually working his way up to manager. It is here that he was apparently
privy to some inside gossip, part of the inspiration for founding the Drudge
Report. Worried about his son's aimlessness, Drudge's father had insisted on
buying him a Packard-Bell computer in 1994. The Drudge Report began as an e-mail
sent out to a few friends. The original issues of the Drudge Report were part
gossip and part opinion. They were distributed as an e-mail newsletter and
posted to alt.showbiz.gossip Usenet forum where they were both loved and
ridiculed. In 1996, the newsletter transitioned slowly from entertainment gossip
to political gossip and moved from e-mail to the Web as its primary distribution
mechanism.
Name: Matt Drudge
Born: 27 October 1966 Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.
Matthew Nathan Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is the proprietor of the Drudge
Report website.
Matthew Drudge, raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC, is an only
child. His parents are Jewish liberal-Democrats who both worked for the federal
government. His father Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the
reference site www.refdesk.com and his mother, a former staff attorney for
Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six. Drudge went to live with his mother.
He had few friends but was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan. In
his book Drudge Manifesto, Drudge reports that he "failed his Bar Mitzvah", and
graduated 341st out of a class of 355 from Northwood High School in 1984, thus
giving himself, in his words, a "more than adequate curriculum vitae for a post
at 7-Eleven".
He was arrested at age 15, on June 18, 1981, for making harassing telephone
calls. After the arrest, Drudge went to live with his father on a farm on the
eastern shore of Maryland. But before long his father sent Drudge back to
Washington to live with his unemployed mother. Drudge was then placed in
psychiatric treatment with Jewish Social Services. It was recommended that
the boy be sent to a boarding school, "and if not the last choice will be a
foster home" (from court papers).
Drudge was unknown before he began the Drudge Report. For many years, he took
odd jobs such as night counterman at a 7-Eleven convenience store, telemarketer
for Time/Life books, McDonald's manager, and sales assistant at a New York City
grocery store. In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles where he took up residence in a
small Hollywood apartment. He took a job in the gift shop of CBS studios,
eventually working his way up to manager. It is here that he was apparently
privy to some inside gossip, part of the inspiration for founding the Drudge
Report. Worried about his son's aimlessness, Drudge's father had insisted on
buying him a Packard-Bell computer in 1994. The Drudge Report began as an e-mail
sent out to a few friends. The original issues of the Drudge Report were part
gossip and part opinion. They were distributed as an e-mail newsletter and
posted to alt.showbiz.gossip Usenet forum where they were both loved and
ridiculed. In 1996, the newsletter transitioned slowly from entertainment gossip
to political gossip and moved from e-mail to the Web as its primary distribution
mechanism.