They built a market on that brand identity and made it hard to deliver information that didn't aspire to that. Matt Drudge has challenged that with a culture based on being fast and first. It's all about speed and getting information before someone else. That has a great deal of appeal for young people today. I don't think so.
People are media-savvy.
They build a repertoire of sources of info. In the matrix of media sources. This site works best with the latest version of Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.