Didn't make a profit for its owners - from The Daily Beast:
ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down
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.
Pure schadenfreude. That site did not need a patron. It was brain dead and on life support. Someone, out of mercy, finally pulled the plug. Pushing a narrative might get a week or two of traction with the general public but we are smart and if the narrative does not support the facts, we will ignore it after a while. Pushing just narrative 24/7 for many years will cause the perceptual equivalent of nasal fatigue.
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