t’s a news website run out of a house in Bloomington, Indiana, by a secretive internet whiz who had a bit part in the classic Middle America movie Breaking Away. A mention of Citizen Free Press often brings a shrug even in news-hungry Washington. But overnight, the site that calls itself an alternative to the once-conservative Drudge Report has shot past competitors and is now poised to dominate the right-leaning media space.
"It's fantastic. I love it. I'm breaking every rule in the modern digital news business with no social media, no Facebook, no branding, no email, and the site is succeeding beyond my wildest dreams,” said the one-man operator who goes by “Kane."
According to the web traffic counter SimilarWeb, he recorded 6.35 million visits and 45 million page views last month. That’s just a sliver of Drudge’s numbers, but it puts Citizen Free Press in the top of conservative news sites for page views. Plus, visitors stay a remarkable 17 minutes. And it happened during a period when CFP was briefly knocked off Google.
The shift by the Drudge Report from seemingly conservative, pro-President Trump, to anti-Trump, has opened the door to several conservative news aggregators to grow, and Citizen Free Press has jumped the furthest fastest.
Like Drudge and unlike traditional news sites, such as the Washington Examiner, it lists stories from other sites, often with edgy, sometimes rude headlines. Today, for example, headlines include “When Obama cut the payroll tax, Pelosi loved it…,” and “Cuomo begs fleeing New Yorkers — ‘Come back, I will cook for you’…”
Poster Comment:
Try it. You'll like it and toss Drudge into the trash can where it belongs!
