[SampleMan]

Interesting that Gawker would make a seemingly political decision to drive people away from their own story.

[jimbo123]

Gawker pays their writers based on the number of clicks the writer gets on his story. So it was a political decision.

But Drudge made a political decision when he turned over control of his website to Matt Rhoades and other Romney operatives.

Drudge has lost almost 750,000 monthly readers to date since his Bloody Thursday hit on Newt, so his anti-Newt and anti-Rick actions in support of Romney have had substantial consequences to his website's traffic.