The Drudge Revolution: The Untold Story of How Talk Radio, Fox News, and a Gift Shop Clerk with an Internet Connection Took Down the Mainstream Media

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Matt Drudge has been labeled everything from "the Walter Cronkite of his era" to a "dangerous menace" and the "country's reigning mischief-maker." Political tastes aside, no one disputes Drudge's influence: a single link from his website, The Drudge Report, has the power to move news cycles, shape front pages, and send television producers into a desperate scramble.

The internet blogger equipped with no more than a high school education has been credited for everything from the impeachment of President Bill Clinton to the death of print news and the election of President Donald Trump. Carl Bernstein went so far as to call Drudge an "influence unequaled" in American politics.

But nearly 20 years after first bursting into the mainstream of American consciousness with his groundbreaking role in the investigation of President Clinton, remarkably little remains known about the man behind the keyboard or the improbable rise that ushered in a new era of media.

In The Drudge Revolution, investigative journalist and author of Newtown: An American Tragedy Matthew Lysiak pulls back the curtain on the world's most powerful journalist, for the first time telling the inside story of how one man's visionary belief in the potential of the internet, coupled with the postFairness Doctrine growth of conservative talk radio and the rise of cable news and social media, created the perfect storm that seized the narrative from the mainstream media and ushered in the presidency of Donald Trump.

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Matthew Lysiak was a staff investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, where for ten years he covered national stories across the country, including the death of Trayvon Martin, the BP oil spill, the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, and hundreds of other national stories. His exclusive coverage of Occupy Wall Street and the 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut brought him national attention. In 2013, he left the Daily News and published Newtown (Simon and Schuster) and Breakthrough (Harper Collins) and co-authored the six book Scholastic series Hilde Cracks the Case. He has appeared on TODAY, Chris Matthew Hardball, the Kelly File, New Day on CNN and dozens of other television and radio outlets to promote his work. The story of his family is the subject of an upcoming television series on Apple streaming starring Brooklynn Prince and Jim Sturgess. Matthew lives with his wife, four daughters, and two dogs in Patagonia, Arizona.