Do You Consider The Drudge Report To Be A Reliable News Source?

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Poll question: Do You Consider The Drudge Report To Be A Reliable News Source?

On a scale of 1-10, with a 1 being, lets say, the Weekly World News and a 10 being the New York Times or Washington Post, I would consider Drudge to be about a 6.

Yeah, he posts inane, sometimes totally false information, but when he does post factual stuff, it's usually on that site before it hits anywhere else. He has, from what I can gather, TONS of sources (though not always reliable) and, you'll have to admit, as a resource, the site is pretty good. It lists tons of web pages for just about every major news maker or news organization around.

Personally, even though I think he's a right-wing hack, he serves some sort of journalistic purpose. Maybe not what some (or most) people around here would find valuable enough. But I find him useful and freely admit to visiting his site a few times throughout the day to see what the big story is.

Sure, he makes shit up sometimes and sure, he gets stuff wrong, but I don't think there's a news organization that at one time hasn't messed up something huge.

And anywhoo, whenever he posts something that works in our favor we usually don't poo-poo it. I've rarely seen an anti-Bush story that was linked from Drudge that had people saying "yeah, but it's Drudge."

So what do you think, is Drudge reliable, or not?