Salon.com > The Drudge Report http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:15:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hack List No. 5: The Drudge Report http://www.salon.com/2012/12/20/hack_list_no_5_the_drudge_report/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/20/hack_list_no_5_the_drudge_report/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13149890 This year, my annual list of the worst of political media highlights not just individuals, but the institutions that enable those individuals. The 2012 Hack List will be counting down the 10 media outlets that are hurting America over the next two days -- stay tuned! (Previous Hack List entries here, here and here.)

Shortly after noon on Nov. 6, Time's Mark Halperin posted this on Twitter: "When John Harris & I wrote 'Drudge rules our world,' we were describing what IS, not what ought to be. Doubters already proven wrong today." A few hours later Barack Obama won reelection, which I assume came as a shock to people who do get most of their news from Matt Drudge.

Here's a brief tour of 2012 as the Drudge Report covered it.

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