[Rick Lee]

Drudge made his bones when he outed Newsweek for sitting on the Lewinsky story. I would say that gave him some credibility as far as having good sources goes. And back then he was working out of an apt. in Hollywood, CA, IIRC. So obviously he's gonna get some good traffic on his site after that. 99% of his site are headlines linked to other sources. I really don't think I've ever gone to many of those newspapers' sites other than by the links on Drudge. I think he gets $10k/wk. for per banner ad. With the traffic he gets, companies stand in line to buy those banner ads. So where is he not creating value? He aggregates a lot of news stories, pretty diverse ones, actually, all onto one page, adds in links to the major syndicated columnists, other news sites and he delivers the traffic numbers that justify his ad rates. He might break five or ten stories himself per year that he writes about. The rest he links to. Good on him. I've read the site every single day since the Lewinsky story broke.