The liberal think tank Center For American Progress says it’s putting its flagship news site ThinkProgress up for sale, according to a report by The Daily Beast Monday.
Another indicator that Josh had the right idea on how to fund TPM to keep it viable. It’s going to be a while before media shakes out in the internet age and figures out how to stay in business while delivering content that has an independent voice.
I hope some solution can be found to keep ThinkProgress alive and kicking – I’ve been a faithful follower for years, and would probably become a subscriber if CAP reconsiders a sale and decides to go in that direction.
This is the part where a wealthy billionaire plutocrat conservative/GOPer who supports the pillaging of this country and the middle-class downward, all to maintain white Christian hegemony, swoops in to buy this as his new pet propaganda project.
Okay, I think I see your problem here - you just haven’t logged on much since Saturday night at about 1:00am…
Like the Ricketts family bought all those local media websites that had sprung up and were thriving and then the journalists all unionized after the Ricketts bought them and the Ricketts shut them all down in one day.
Good Riddance. Neither CAP nor Think Progress are actually “Progressive”, and are chock full of really terrible people like Neera Tanden. Ironically, it sounds like an awful work environment for women as well.
Press “F” to pay respect for what once was an actual Progressive outlet. It’s toast.
I dOn’T uNdeRsTanD wHy tHInK pRoGreSS iSn"t gEttING tHe tRAFfic tHeY uSEd tO!
But the site, which is editorially independent from CAP, has struggled in recent years as advertising revenues have dried up and traffic has dipped.
This schmuck was the editor at TP. Regularly taking a shit on Bernie Sanders. Cuz “progress”.
!Товарищ, вам платят по почте? Три подряд на мертвой ветке, без ответа?
По крайней мере, посмотрите хорошее видео, чтобы развлечь вас на смену…
People thought Think Progress was progressive when, in actuality, it was centrist during the Bush and Obama years, Overton window being what it was then. Now that there are actual progressive sites to view, Think Progress is shown to be the corporate, Clinton rag it always was. Maybe Jeff Bezos or Peter Theil has some pocket change on their bedside table they can use to turn it into another libertarian media site hiding behind a liberal facade.
Yeah, I think it will be very interesting to see who buys this decaying pseudo-left bag of spam. I’ll go out on a limb and guess it will continue to be an outlet for middle-of-the-road liberalism that doesn’t actually challenge power.
What’s RT’s offer?
Another “Progressive” at TP, “Investigative Reporter” Casey Michel, makes the case that Bernie supporters are maybe a little bit murdery.
Super Progressive and very cool. And these people wonder why their readers abandoned them? REALLY?
“Bernie Sanders is the choice of Putin and MURDERERS! Be VERY afraid!”
You’re paid per post, or for time online? Just curious, happy to help you either way to make your work metrics for the bosses.
Don’t want you to be lacking for rubles for your valiant efforts, no matter how little effect they have here.
I used to read TP back when Yglesias was there but drifted away from them just like I drifted away from Atrios and Daily Kos. Been reading Josh since TPM was born.
Off thread but tangential …
The individual sub model is not the stroke of genius its claimed to be. I`m happy to support journalism and help free it from the choke hold of advertising but it destroys the beauty of the internet when links frequently behind paywalls at a publication I cannot afford. Im currently considering dropping the NYT and switching to WAPO but I would miss some of the Times journalists. My favorite journalists are spread across many publications and each has a selection of things I might want to read but maybe not enough to justify a sub.
I currently subscribe to NYT, Prime, several podcasts and two dead tree german newspapers. Tempted to add Wired and NYRB but it eventually gets expensive.
I`d love to see some sort of coop or bundling of access so I could pay a single sub and get say 10 articles a month at each publication. Or maybe X? total page views with publications rewarded proportionally.
Not sure this kind of thing works in a competitive world.
Yes, every criticism of the center must be responded to with red-baiting.
Classy.
I was just thinking the other day about the women in the Obama White House who said the same thing.
Almost anything’s better than Trump, of course, but that’s a bar so low that it’s underground.
Honestly, I doubt they do.
And it’s not even effective red-baiting.
Wait…you mean reciting shopworn lines about “the weather in St. Pete’s” and vodka, posted in Cyrillic using Google Translate to infer leftists are “Russians”… ISN’T an effective McCarthyite technique to eliminate non-centrist voices from online forums under a transparent patriotic guise?
Color me gobsmacked.
