UPDATE: Thanks Barbi Twins for the retweet and mention:
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I read a great piece last week at Breitbart’s Big Journalism site reporting that — as their Liberal bias and agenda becomes more-and-more apparent to most readers — the Politico’s daily traffic is also starting to plummet (can you hear the tiny violins playing in the background?):
Politico is a menace to truth and the ideal of what journalism should be, especially on the Web where everyone from Breitbart to Huffington to Kos to Tucker Carlson have had the decency to state their biases up front.
The good news is that, at least according to the Daily Caller, Politico’s trend-lines look eerily similar to those in Old Media.
Just like the rest of the decrepit leftist media arrogantly hiding behind that hilariously phony shield of objectivity, Politico is shedding readers at an alarming rate.
So sad. Perhaps another reason for their decline is their lack of understanding what truly drives web traffic. Take, for instance, this Politico story about the infamous Barbi Twins (former Playboy playmates Shane and Sia Barbi ) being upset with Obama for signing a bill that has lifted a ban on slaughtering horses in the United States and using them for meat for human consumption.
You don’t even have to read the story to understand what they did wrong. Simply look at the picture they used to accompany the story:

'While Obama was pardoning a turkey, he abandoned our horses,' the Barbi twins say. | AP Photo
That’s because the editors at Politico really believed that this story was about…the horses.
When they should have realized that nobody was clicking over to this story to read about the horses. They were clicking over to read about the Barbi Twins (not naked…but they should have found a way to work that search-engine jewel into the text somewhere). Which would have made a picture like this one much more appropriate and help drive traffic from all the guys (and some gals, too, NTTAWTT) searching for pictures of the Barbi Twins (topless, naked, or whatnot):

Barbi Twins: Save a horse, ride a cowboy
See how easy that is? Horses don’t drive the internet; boobs do. I thought everyone knew that?
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