On advertisers vs the world has anybody done any analysis on what losing advertisers like this might do to gawker? I can't imagine they are terribly different to most other online companies, online news, gossip rags and newspaper style things in general (their parent company is a private Cayman Islands affair so public info is a bit thin on the ground) and the interrupting of cash flows tends not to be great for said styles of companies.
I do also like the "People don't like gawker? Well this is a thoroughly new affair." narrative as well.
I keep asking these sorts of questions, I might have to have a chat with some accountant/finance friends, pull some data and generally do some analysis. No doubt the results would be dry as anything but seen as we have now gone through the "people we long suspected of being inept/cretins not only confirmed as such but reconfirmed as such" stage it might be worth looking into. Some have queried why a "movement" wanting to look into ethics issues in games related fields has not done much in the way of certain things (a fair question, though still a redirect of sorts) but I have also long wanted to look into
Hollywood accounting in the game industry but I do not have the full set of skills required for that sort of thing.