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A number of staffers have resigned from the Tea Party News Network, slamming the company's “despicable practices” as "immoral and unethical," Mediaite reported Thursday.
Owned by TheTeaParty.net founder Todd Cefaratti, TPNN launched in 2012 as the self-professed "antidote to mainstream media bias." The resignations, however, come on the heels of a Daily Beast article detailing what some readers believe is TPNN's slow drift away from Tea Party-centric issues and toward sensationalized click bait. According to The Daily Beast, the site's Facebook page, which boasts some 1.2 million likes, often posts outrageous videos of fights and brawls. Much of the more gory content posted is taken from site's like Fights.buzz and Viral.buzz, both of which are also owned by Cefaratti.
“I won’t click on those damn stories. It’s about the shock factor. It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with clicks," conservative activist Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, also known as “Joe the Plumber,” told The Daily Beast. "How far are they willing to go to compromise their integrity? It makes me sick, it makes me angry. It makes me want to go kick someone’s ass.”
Following The Daily Beast story, TPNN staff members wrote a resignation letter outlining their grievances with the company. Posted to Twitter by Free Beacon reporter CJ Ciaramella, the letter claims that the company both undervalues its writers and treats its readers as "unsophisticated simpletons."
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Staffers Quit Tea Party News Network, Say Site Sees Readers As Unsophisticated Simpletons
"Unsophisticated simpletons"? Well, that would also be my assessment.
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