Later, Stone moved his allegiances to China, North Vietnam, and Cuba presumably Jeffersonian republics all. This raises the most interesting difference between Stone and Drudge. Stone got huge things wrong, while Drudge gets a lot of little things wrong. With all his fastidious scholarship, Stone often produced monstrous lies. Drudge, on the other hand, works fast and sloppy but aims for simple truths gossipy, interesting, often prurient or trivial but sometimes deadly serious, with little ideology mixed in.
Few people are more professionally pompous than highly paid journalists.
They regularly put on make-up and read cue cards for a living, yet want to think of themselves as bold crusaders. That same rule is what keeps Jennings et al. on the air. But they re too ashamed to admit it.