They were looking for a buyer but nobody would bite.
Far left Think Progress website shut its doors on Friday.
Think Progress was a top far left news outlet but they were a direct competitor with ABC, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, CBS, NPR, PBS, and most mainstream news outlets in America.
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The Gateway Pundit has covered Think Progress for years.
The Daily Beast reported:
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.
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The Gateway Pundit, with all of our wonderful readers, passed Think Progress months ago in website traffic despite all of the big money that propped up far left website.
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