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PNOMH PENH, Cambodia: Yeah, right. A clandestine Khmer Rouge radio broadcast claimed today that Pol Pot was captured Thursday night by a group of former comrades now loyal to Cambodia's royalist premier. Nobody's actually seem Pol Pot in captivity, of course, except the various groups that have claimed to hold him. Having just admitted they were wrong when they claimed to have captured him, Royalist government officials now are reluctant to say what they know. Meanwhile, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen, the leader of the formerly communist Cambodian People's Party, coolly dismissed the news as another flimsy...
...national newsweekly, he's been told, is doing a cover story on yet another major TV personality coming out of the closet. If Drudge could have found anything even resembling confirmation, he would have run with it. One press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There's nothing an avid Drudgester likes more than watching the king of new junk media outscoop the scoopers...
Drudge (and Dexter) lives in a six-room apartment in downtown Hollywood, where he does his reporting out of a homemade geekatorium: one TV showing CNN, another MSNBC, a third tuned to a direct-broadcast satellite. Rush Limbaugh, a fan and spiritual brother, blares out of one of the radios. Drudge's police scanner is crackling pure L.A. bad will. And of course, there are computers--three of them. They are his two-way pipeline to the Net. In the past 24 hours, 1,796 E-mail messages have poured into his In box--more than usual because...
...politics and political views were shaped both by his own history and from yet another television broadcast: "The Rush Limbaugh Show...
...senior leaving the Memorial Church mimed a yawn to review Rudenstine's speech, but the president seemed to have impressed parents, who listened to a broadcast of the service in Tercentenerary Theatre...