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Thu 19 Feb, 2015 09:26 pm
Tea Party Website Staff Quits En Masse
Most of the editorial staff of the Tea Party News Network resigned this afternoon following a Daily Beast exposé on the website’s desperate efforts to generate traffic. TPNN began in 2012 to give voice to the conservative grassroots and quickly grew a mass following among tea partiers, even scoring interviews with major figures in GOP. But shady business practices that blurred the line between the company’s non-profit political wing and its for-profit news wing—as well as increased reliance on fight porn—led to nearly the entire staff quitting Thursday. “The audience is regarded as unsophisticated simpletons," read the resignation letter to the site’s owner, Todd Cefaratti. "The activism that built all of the infrastructure is considered ‘a pain in the ass,’ not as an opportunity to save the country. As a group we can no longer tolerate being associated with these despicable practices.”
@bobsal u1553115,
I realize this is a trivial point, probably regret asking, but what is meant by "fight porn?" Is it money to fight porn or some kind of kinky thing?
@revelette2,
Maybe it's a typo, they probably meant 'fart porn.'
@revelette2,
After stopping by to look at the Tea Party News Network's website, it seems it's the way TPNN writes headlines. They use bad grammar and often don't make sense such as this headline:
Rev. Franklin Graham Explains Why is Obama Protecting Islam.
I guess they editors were upset that their viewers weren't astute enough to catch all the errors.
@revelette2,
That they are into all those fight leagues and ultimate fighter leagues.
It was bound to fail, half can't write and the other half can't read and if they all put their heads together they can only come up with one complete set of teeth.
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