Back In The Old 1990's

We stumbled across this CNN.com article from 1998 written in the wake of the Drudge Report’s breaking of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The whole thing is a fascinating read in a time capsule sort of way, but the most ironic part has to be the following:

"The case for Drudge," he writes in TIME, "is that there ought to be a middle ground between the highest standards and none at all. And the Internet, which can be sort of halfway between a private conversation and formal publication, is a good place for that middle ground. The middle ground, of course, should be acknowledged as such ... People should understand that the information they get this way is middling quality -- better than what their neighbor heard at the dry cleaner's but not as good as The New York Times." http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/30/pandora.web/