Every citizen can be a reporter.
Indeed, it was Drudge who introduced the world to the Monica Lewinsky sex tale from his one-man media outpost in a Hollywood apartment complex. Drudge said he vividly recalled the moment on 17 January that he reported Newsweek had spiked a story about accusations the former White House intern had had an affair with President Clinton. There had been rumbles about the Drudge lunch for days beforehand. Drudge freely admitted he has no journalistic training. His first scoops, he said, were literally culled from wastebaskets at the CBS television network offices in Los Angeles.