Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge

CLINTON FINDS WAY TO PLAY ALONG WITH DRUDGE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Jim Rutenberg]
Matt Drudge came to national prominence a decade ago as a nemesis of the Clintons who used the Web to peddle, gleefully, the latest news and rumor generated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Now Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) is learning to play nice with the Drudge Report and the powerful, elusive and conservative-leaning man behind it. Because of the sheer number of people who look at it and because of the attention it gets from the media, what appears on Drudge can, for a few minutes or an entire day, drive what appears elsewhere, making it, “a force in the political news cycle for both the press and the campaigns,” said David Chalian, the political director at ABC News.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/us/politics/22drudge.html?ref=todayspaper
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