Oh ya, this is unbiased reporting, isn't it?
Oh yes, just to make you happy...THOSE STUPID JERKS!!!!!
Drudge gets competition
By Frank Barnako, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:19 PM ET Apr 6, 2005
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Matt Drudge has owned the online news/ gossip /investigative reporting/ scaremongering Web space for almost 10 years. That may be set to end Wednesday, as blog publisher Nick Denton is launching Sploid.com, a tabloid Web site for breaking news with attitude.
"Sploid is a news site with a tabloid mentality -- top stories up top, played big, as fast as they break," Denton said in an e-mail. "If there's a political line, it's anarcho-capitalist -- sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right."
Befitting with Web style, headlines on Sploid.com link to the full stories on other sites. In a preview this morning, little original reporting was evident, other than an editorial comment roasting CNN for being too "perky" in its Wednesday broadcast. Straight stories like "Halliburton Gets Billion-Dollar Payday" and "Iraq's Got a Prez" were accompanied by a sensational item, "Ms. Wheelchair Runner-Up Blasts Pageant."
Denton publishes several other blogs, including Gawker, Defamer and Wonkette. He's been credited with having a great eye for writing talent and an easy managerial hand. To produce Sploid, he's lined up Gawker's original editor, Choire Sicha, and two freelance journalists, Ken Layne and Henry Seltzer.
"We want to occupy the space between the whiny left and the ranting right," Denton told Observer.com. "Drudge is very good. It will probably take us 10 years to catch up with his level of traffic. We'll have 1,000th of the traffic, at least to begin with." |
