RIP ThinkProgress: The Top Progressive News Site Has Shut Down
Source: Daily Beast
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, 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 CAPs 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.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-a-top-progressive-news-site-is-shutting-down
msongs
(67,395 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)imho.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)And yet Air America and ThinkProgress can't make it.
There are billions of progressive dollars; where are they being spent?
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)Meanwhile, every redneck truck driver knows who Rush Limbaugh is and when he comes on
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)the problem is that radio is dead. Its an increasing moribund form of media with an aging listener base. Modern listeners have access to an infinite amount of content that they can curate and control individually, and are thus unlikely to spend a lot of time listening to one-size-fits-all programming.
The world is ever-changing and all things come and go. Cranky old people hang on to cranky old media, so shit like Limbaugh manages to eke out a living, but his numbers are nothing like they were back in the day.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)The iPhone didn't come around until mid-2007. Air America had already gone bankrupt a year earlier in 2006.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Things evolve so quickly one can lose track.
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)Why is the right pumping megabucks into keeping Rush and his verminous ilk on the air?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)still listen. Old cranky white people arent our demographic in the main.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)delivery guys, truckers, plumbers, electricians. they don't all listen to talk radio, but if they want to, the RWNM is right there.
and many people listen to radio during their commutes - traffic reports, sports, and local news drawing them to news radio. many (most?) "all-news" format stations have a conservative bent.
liberals ceded the field to hate radio and evangelical nutjobbery.
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)orangecrush
(19,537 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... also spend a lot of time driving in cars and trucks, listening to radio. That's the target market for Rush Limbaugh advertisers.
I'm a city-dweller, and before I retired I had a half-hour commute but I never turned on the radio. I played music CDs or books-on-tape exclusively and I'll bet a lot of city people can't be bothered with radio.
RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)That is a major part of the problem.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)Over 100 private jets to one conference on Sicily. Gotta burn a lotta carbon to be green.
https://infostormer.com/rich-and-famous-take-114-private-jets-to-global-warming-conference/
Maxheader
(4,372 posts)the national enquirer and info wars....slash bang stuff... 3 ring conspiracy theories..and then you have
us cnn followers...we appreciate what the liberal shows are trying to do...but don't necessarily follow them..
too closely...I could learn,