Apparently I’m not the only one who noticed this
If you follow my Twitter account, you know that all of Friday night I posted a constant stream of updates about the fact that Drudge was ignoring the Troopergate report that found that Palin had violated ethics laws. Given Drudge’s power in driving media narratives, I considered this to be a major media scandal.
Someone else seems to have noticed: Drudge Report Uses Racial Undertones, Blatant Propaganda to Boost McCain
In the meantime, the one article unfavorable to Republicans received none of the star treatment the positive stories did. Early Saturday morning, Drudge posted the headline, “Report Stings Palin Over Troopergate,†in response to the harsh critique of Palin’s “abuse of power†to emerge from the State of Alaska’s investigation into the scandal. But far from the top-of-the-fold, bold/underlined/italicized headlines that seemed to offer bad news for the Obama camp, this one was buried on the left-hand side, about two-thirds of the way down the page. By 2:41 on Sunday morning, the story was completely erased from the site.
