Posted on 09/12/2019 3:02:13 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.
The outlet, which served as an editorially independent project of the Democratic Party think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), will stop current operations on Friday and be converted into a site where CAP scholars can post.
Top officials at CAP had been searching for a buyer to take over ThinkProgress, which has run deficits for years, and according to sources there were potentially three serious buyers in the mix recently. But in a statement to staff, Navin Nayak, the executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said the site was ultimately unable to secure a patron.
“Given that we could find no new publisher, we have no other real option but to fold the ThinkProgress website back into CAP’s broader online presence with a focus on analysis of policy, politics, and news events through the lens of existing CAP and CAP Action staff experts,” said Nayak. “Conversations on how to do so are just beginning, but we will seek to reinvent it as a different platform for progressive change.”
A dozen ThinkProgress employees will be losing their jobs, a CAP aide said, as many who were on staff had already gone to work elsewhere and some were incorporated into the larger CAP infrastructure. Those who are being laid off will be given a severance package that runs through the end of November and health care coverage that lasts through the year, said the CAP aide.
He was also really good as the vice and later president in 24.
Like.
More winning.
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Duetche gone, and now this????
What’s a Leftist cry baby to do?
Learn to code. BWAHAHAHA!
It was a bad outlet anyway. It started well as a protest against Obama’s internet kill-switch, but from there went quickly into far left.
Too bad, so sad. Good riddance!
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“Too bad a conservative billionaire didn’t buy it to convert lefties to right thinking.“
Would’ve been a grin if carefully done. Game the mind gamers.
StinkProgress. Now known as RedInkProgress.
I certainly hope this doesn’t bode ill for DU :(
Even though I haven’t posted there or trolled on it for ages, it seems they meme fake news onto the air waves!
Isn’t Think Progress an OXYMORON? If you think Progressivism would NEVER advance...
What were they “thinking”...their target was the same crowd that protested bumper stickers that said outre` things like “Support Our Troops”, because they didn’t want to be told what to do...
Then a program gives the order to “Think Progressive” which not only pissed them off but was deemed like way too hard a task....
What, Leftists can’t run a positive balance sheet?
Now THERE’S a shock!
ThinkProgress is not a news site; it’s a propaganda outlet.
Fats Domino- a classic.
Followed by Chubby Checker...
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