Over the years , '' ThinkProgress '' reports have often drawn comment from mainstream news outlets , such as '' The New York Times '' , '' The Guardian '' , '' The Washington Post '' , '' The Wall Street Journal '' , '' Time '' magazine and CNN . For example , '' Times '' reporter Ian Urbina , in his coverage of hostility in the health care reform debate , cited a 2009 '' ThinkProgress '' report by Lee Fang on a Tea Party Patriots strategy memo advocating disrupting town hall meetings of Democratic members of Congress . After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010 , '' ThinkProgress '' reported on the safety record of mine owner Massey Energy , finding over $ 2.2 million in fines levied by the Mine Safety and Health Administration against Massey for more than 3,000 safety violations ; '' Times '' reporter Tom Zeller Jr. cited the figures in the '' Times '' s coverage of Massey 's safety record . In 2013 , '' ThinkProgress '' posted a video of Pam Simon , a staffer for Representative Gabrielle Giffords , who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011 , confronting Senator Kelly Ayotte regarding Ayotte 's opposition to closing the gun show loophole ; the '' Times '' cited the video in a report on gun control activism among gun violence victims . In a 2015 op-ed in the '' Times '' , Charles M. Blow excerpted '' ThinkProgress '' research on gender in chief executive officer hiring . The same year , Blow excerpted '' ThinkProgress '' research on the effectiveness of drug screening of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients in an analysis of the political rhetoric of poverty
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
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