May 30, 2003
Drudgery Emphasis

Anyone else notice how Matt Drudge has started using italics?

Pentagon Eyes Massive Covert Attack on Iran...
Rumsfeld pushes for regime change...
Debate Slow...
Drones to be tested for traffic management...
SAUDIS ALLOW FOREIGNERS TO INTERROGATE THEIR CITIZENS...

It not as if he's settling down and getting used to this whole HTML, WWW, Eeentarnet thing. He's been publishing Drudgereport.com for years. He should know how to emphasize text - his page is about as bare-bones as one could make it. And let's be honest: he's posted links to stories far more than sufficiently inflammitory and emotional to deserve the < i > < / i > tags.

Perhaps a sinister conspiracy theory would suffice!

As anyone who has discussed things with Objectivists know, they (and I...) have a remarkable tendancy to italicize and bolden selectively to stress concepts during an arguement. At times it feels like they are talking to a five-year-old, the way they bring attention to the things they are trying to convey.

Mr. Drudge's sudden acceptance and usage of italics must mean he has converted to a free market capitalism philosophy underneath our noses, choosing to join the elite of the elite thinkers in order to (bit by hypertext-transferred bit) bring about a cultural revolution!

Or he could just be bored and wants to spice his otherwise bland front page up.



Posted by Drizzten at May 30, 2003 01:48 AM

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