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Liberal news site ThinkProgress shutting down after failing to find buyer: report
Fox News ^ | Today | Brian Flood

Posted on 09/06/2019 6:46:11 PM PDT by cba123

The news site ThinkProgress is shutting down and will no longer publish original reporting from a progressive perspective.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund was attempting to sell the hyperpartisan website but failed to find a buyer, according to The Daily Beast.

(Shame, that)

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; internet; leftwing; media; theleft; thinkprogress
Awwwww...
1 posted on 09/06/2019 6:46:11 PM PDT by cba123
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To: cba123

No sympathy for horrible leftists when they go bankrupt.

JoMa


2 posted on 09/06/2019 6:48:04 PM PDT by joma89
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To: cba123
Maybe whoever it was that bought Newsweek for a dollar would be interested......
3 posted on 09/06/2019 6:49:08 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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I am just devastated at this travesty . . . Crying with laughter
4 posted on 09/06/2019 6:49:48 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: cba123

Oh no... what a shame. /s


5 posted on 09/06/2019 6:50:46 PM PDT by one4perl
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To: cba123
original reporting from a progressive perspective You mean, propaganda?
6 posted on 09/06/2019 6:51:13 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Tag, you're it.)
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To: cba123

They’re shutting down?

I Think that’s Progress. For America.


7 posted on 09/06/2019 6:54:56 PM PDT by adorno
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I’ll try to nab the domain when it becomes available and set it to forward to Trump’s campaign site.


8 posted on 09/06/2019 7:22:58 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: cba123
With the Establishment Media, Vox, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, etc., what place is there for "Stink Progress?"
9 posted on 09/06/2019 7:24:52 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: cba123

More winning.


10 posted on 09/06/2019 7:26:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: cba123

LMCAO = Laughing My Conservative Ass Off!


11 posted on 09/06/2019 8:52:26 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: joma89

With banning, shadow banning, and demonizing on Twitter, Youtube, Google, and Facebook, hasn’t ThinkProgress become unnecessary?


12 posted on 09/06/2019 9:51:23 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: txnativegop
I am just devastated at this travesty . . .

... of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham

13 posted on 09/06/2019 11:12:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: cba123

I to am deeply saddened.. ;-)


14 posted on 09/07/2019 1:40:27 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: MountainWalker

That sounds like a terrific idea, but if you read the full article, it sounds like they may be holding onto the site for future plans.

But that is a great idea. :)


15 posted on 09/07/2019 2:46:29 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Lysandru

With the Establishment Media, Vox, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, etc., what place is there for “Stink Progress?” 


There is always AirAmerica.........oh wait.


16 posted on 09/07/2019 5:14:29 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: cba123

PC died years ago.


17 posted on 09/07/2019 9:21:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: DoodleBob

I am stealing this for my own personal use! Hilarious.


18 posted on 09/07/2019 1:13:34 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: txnativegop
Thank you, but truthfully I took it from Woody Allen, from one of his movies before he became a total loon.
19 posted on 09/07/2019 4:25:41 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

Okay.


20 posted on 09/07/2019 10:36:47 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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