Pink News: Happy Birthday Pink News!

By Fagburn Staff Writer

PinkNews.co.uk is five years old today.
From humble beginnings, the site has gone downhill quickly and is now the worst gay news source in Europe and the second worst globally.
In the last five years, they've brought the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community a load of reprinted press releases and unchecked wire stories.
They've worked to tell their readers not to question anything and earlier this year, extracted a range of meaningless vague election promises from the beloved leaders of the new coalition government.
But they've also focused on gay rights further afield, reporting on the plight of those persecuted in homophobic countries such as Wales and Scotland, plus reports from lavish free press trips to Pride celebrations as diverse as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Their top stories include that time got into big trouble over that Ashley Cole photo, the one about how Europe's "leading gay news source" is actually edited and written by a straight woman.
PinkNews.co.uk publisher and founder Benjamin Cohen said: "When I started PinkNews.co.uk, I never envisaged it would become this bad. I just wanted to publish journalism so piss poor it couldn't get published elsewhere."
"I quickly realised that there was no need for broadsheet quality reporting in the LGBT community."
"It was incredible during the last general election that we seemed to make the newspapers two, maybe three, times with quite minor stories about comments from homophobic Tory candidates or our tracker poll which measured the voting intentions of 14 LGBT people."
"In the past five years, we've also had fantastic editors – Marc Shoffman, Tony Grew and Jessica Geen.
"Obviously I'm joking, only Tony Grew was any good."
"The future is incredibly exciting as we look to increase commercialisation to support my piggy bank and we have an even worse new design coming in the next few weeks.
"Some say that with the election of the Tories and with David Cameron as Prime Minister - a man we've been championing ever since we started - our work here is done.
"I assure you all, we've only just begun."

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