#TinFoilTuesday – Drudge Runs Poll On Bilderberg 2012
May 29th, 2012
It was maybe a year ago that I started noticing something interesting about The Drudge Report– it was linking to news articles on Alex Jones’ website, InfoWars.com. Now Matt Drudge’s website is an interesting animal. It’s not quite mainstream, as evidenced by the fact that it highlights such alternative news sources as InfoWars. Drudge definitely has an independent streak. At the same time, it can be pretty vanilla in its political orientation, with Drudge shamelessly shilling for the likes of Mitt Romney, and certainly The Drudge Report enjoys wide mainstream acceptance as a source of news. Even many Democratic politicos obsessively check the conservative news website throughout the day.
That’s why it was interesting to see Drudge starting to feature a news source that many Americans– of those who’ve even heard of it– might consider pretty fringe. As the months wore on, I noticed Drudge linking to InfoWars more frequently and with great regularity. I also started to notice headlines about The Bilderberg Group, an arch-villain of peace and freedom in Alex Jones’ political and historical worldview. This weekend, while checking Drudge, I definitely smiled and raised an eyebrow when I saw a poll about the Bilderberg Group ahead of their 2012 meeting in Virginia. It had a simple title, “Bilderberg 2012,” and three simple options: “Real Power Masters,” “False Conspiracy,” and “A Little of Both.”
How interesting! Does Matt Drudge have a taste for tinfoil? Does he believe that the Bilderberg Group has global designs on our lives and freedoms? Might he even have some questions about what happened on 9-11? For most conservatives, Jones’ views on 9-11 make him entirely anathema as a credible source of any other news or commentary, which isn’t really fair or logical. Drudge is definitely pushing the envelope by featuring AJ’s work and by drawing attention to the Bilderberg Group, he’s doing something that all honest journalists should be: asking questions, investigating, informing his audience about what the world’s powerful and influential people are doing. But there might not be tinfoil under that fedora…
Of course now I’m talking about Matt Drudge and his website. So is Alex Jones, who while marginalized as a media figure, still commands a massive audience. The Internet loves conspiracy theories and is suspicious of people in power. Drudge might just be taking a lesson from the cable television success of Glenn Beck and serving up some Alex Jones Light because it draws and captivates an audience (which draws and captivates advertisers). So here’s the question: Does Matt Drudge have sympathies for certain conspiracy theories? Or is he just pandering for the page views? And even if he is, does it matter? Does his coverage of a major news story that most of the media is ignoring still do the public a lot of good regardless of his motives? And of course: Do you think the Bilderberg Group represents the “Real Power Masters,” a “False Conspiracy,” or “A Little of Both?”
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