Drudge Down; Newsmax and Memeorandum Up

The link to Matt Drudge's site has been removed from my side bar. He is more and more idiosyncratic politically--choosing to bash one primary candidate (Newt Gingrich) and not give equal coverage to the errors of the other leading candidate (Mitt Romney). Unfortunately Matt Drudge's flaws as a news aggregator have come to outweigh his value. Slanted news on the right (or left) is not my cup of tea. A viewpoint is fine, but irrational slashing is not.

Newsmax and Memeorandum have taken Drudge's place among the links in the Resources section. Both Newsmax and Memeorandum are highly recommended. I also have started a subscription to Newsmax magazine.

UPDATE: Drudge followed Romney team lead:

"A team of some of the most fearsome researchers in the business, led by Mr. Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, spent days dispensing negative information about Mr. Gingrich, much of it finding its way to the influential Drudge Report, which often serves as a guide for conservative talk radio and television assignment editors and to which Mr. Rhoades has close ties.

"The effort hit a peak by Thursday, when the site was virtually taken over by headlines assailing Mr. Gingrich, whose advisers said they eventually gave up on trying to persuade the Drudge staff to spare them, acknowledging, in the words of one aide, that 'very little can be done.'”