This is Matt Drudge, millionaire founder and owner of the Drudge Report, the first and most successful online ‘newspaper’. People have called Drudge the ultimate blogger but he doesn't accept this 【A1】________(describe). He considers the Drudge Report to be a proper newspaper, very different 【A2】 ________ the thousands of weblogs which have sprung up on the internet.

Drudge's fascination for news and gossip stems from a childhood job 【A3】 d________ papers for The Washington Star, which gave him plenty of time and 【A4】o________ to catch up with the latest news. Drudge was 【A5】________(interest) in school work or sport. However, he developed an obsession 【A6】 ________ rumors and political gossip. At school his only good marks for 【A7】 c________ affairs. Following a series of dead-end jobs Drudge ended up in los angels in the 1990s, just in 【A8】 ________ for the beginning of what was to become the internet.

The World Wide Web was a fertile hunting 【A9】 g________ for Drudge. He spend hours sifting through the newsgroups and websites that then existed, searching 【A10】 ________ rumors and inside stories from the political and entertainment worlds. He launched the Drudge Report website in 1995, 【A11】 ________ has become a daily ‘rumor bulletin’ expressing his version of the latest and juiciest gossip from Hollywood and Washington. Always managing to be the first with 【A12】 ________ (break) news, Drudge's success was assured when he became the first person to publicise the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

Now with an income of over a million dollars a year and many thousands of 【A13】 ________ (subscribe), the Drudge Report has become a ‘must see’ resource for those hungry for the latest news and gossip. Will the ever-increasing availability of news on the internet mean the 【A14】 e________ for its older rival, the conventional newspaper? Drudge doesn't think so. He thinks the two working 【A15】 t________.

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