Even without a face to face interview, New York Magazine still manages to profile internet ace Matt Drudge this week with a very familiar lede.

In lieu of speaking with him, Philip Weiss talks to everyone surrounding him, learning Drudge began to lose his hair in high school, used to deliver the Washington Star and that back then, he was the one who was had trouble reaching people. When he was 15, he was arrested for making “annoying phone calls to a girl.”

Since then, Drudge has been on the straight shot to sanity.

In his radio show, Drudge said,

So many cameras everywhere. And now you start feeding that into some kind of database and start linking it up with a Fascist company like Google? This is a serious issue. And it’s not given serious consideration—when it is a total transformation of our society and our liberties. What gives you a right? Why are you watching me? People say, well, what do you have to hide, Drudge? What do you have to hide? You know what? The burden should be on them. I think I have a right not to be watched.

A fair point. Plus if this bald recluse ever reported that Fidel Castro died, we would have to believe him.