Everything is money driven these days, no one does anything for the love of it any more. Just look at their columnists, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp, Graham Poll and Martin Keown, all there to add clicks to the site. They even employ a full time professional troll called Adrian Durham, people literally go their to call him a knob almost exclusively.
I do like Martin Samuel though, he does his research, talks a lot of sense and comes at you (no jokes please) from different angles. Mind you on 400k a year he should be bloody good at his job!
90 % of journalism is stolen from someone, pick up 5 papers and they'll all have the same crap written in them. The Mail has always made money from making mountains out of molehills, tis nothing new.