Progressive think tank Center for American Progressive on Tuesday reversed its decision to reboot the organization’s news outlet, ThinkProgress, after the folded outlet’s union criticized the move.
I am confused as to whether it is going to just be archived as is (and available to readers - but with no new posts), or it will start having new posts again, but this time posts to be written by think tank staffers? Or something else altogether. Maybe I need some midday coffee to boost my comprehension, or something.
In your defence, that part of the article is not well written and it leaves me confused too.
They are changing the name to ThinkDigress.
I am just not getting why it would be a bad thing to have the site continue. They have made it clear they cannot afford the journalism aspect but it was an analysis site before it was a journalism site so I don’t get how it is a bad thing to keep it alive as such. This seems overreach from the Union. “If you can’t afford us you should just shut down.” It’s not like they have fired the union to hire a bunch of cheap labor, they are moving in a different, more economical direction. It stinks that the journalists don’t have a place but that is beyond their control.
Isn’t Neera Tanden in change of CAP? That in and of itself would say a lot.
I thought that email I received from them over the weekend was odd and contridicting.
(Disclosure: I bought a Tshirt there once as a donation.)
There’s a thin line between “we can’t afford this, so we have to close, but we’ll reboot soon” and “we don’t like our union contract, so we’re shutting down, firing all the union workers and reopening under the same name with freelance and ‘voluntary’ contributions from our nonunion staff.” I can see CAP’s point of view in trying to preserve an ongoing source of news and analysis/discussion, but it’s also the case that shutting down, firing all the staff and then reopening with decidedly lower pay scales has been a union-busting tactic since there have been unions.
Empress Neera had to bring the rebel scum to heel, so she deployed the Journalism Death Star…
Will the corruption never end?!
