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Mitt Romney’s campaign can now count the conservative Drudge Report as a tool in its multi-million dollar media arsenal.
Reporting from the New York Times has detailed that Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades used his connection to the gossip-monger to promote damaging material about former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The Times notes that Rhoades and his staff “spent days dispensing negative information about Mr. Gingrich, much of it finding its way to the influential Drudge Report.”
It is also revealed that the Romney-Drudge connection was so tight that Gingrich’s staff “gave up” on getting their anti-Romney material linked on the tip sheet used by many in the mainstream and conservative press.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Rhoades forged an alliance with Drudge when Rhoades worked at the Republican National Committee, and was the “go-to Drudge guy.”
In addition to regularly posting disinformation about Democrats and liberals, Drudge has also regularly promoted the work of 9/11 conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. [NY Times]
News aggregation impresario Matt Drudge is being sued for copyright infringement for reproducing a copyrighted photo along with a link to a story about airport security on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website.
The plaintiff in the case is Righthaven, a company that’s earned a reputation this year as a world-class copyright troll. Righthaven has sued nearly 200 parties this year alone. Righthaven has typically gone after those who post news excerpts of its partners, such as the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but pledged to be more discretionary after being handed a defeat in court by a judge who recently ruled that one of its targets had “fair use” to its work.
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