I stopped following Pink News everywhere some time ago anyway, but now they're platforming Wes Streeting?

[isabelb@mastodon.ie]

I stopped following Pink News everywhere some time ago anyway, but now they're platforming Wes Streeting?!
Really?
Well, they can absolutely fuck right off, then 🤬

Apparently "trans youngsters have not been forgotten" - no they've been kicked under the nearest fleet of buses. He really is a disingenuous shit.

(no, not sharing a link - it's easy to find if you really want to...)

[ciara@anarres.family]

@IsabelB they don't seem to know their audience at all 🤮

[isabelb@mastodon.ie]

@ciara

Or they do, and are deliberately alienating them...

[rachelthornsub@famichiki.jp]

@IsabelB Pink News has been blasting Streeting for months. At the very least they need to explain their decision. This reminds me of the time Sen.Tom Cotton was invited to write a guest opinion piece in the New York Times in which he advocated the use of the military in suppressing protests against police brutality. At least that one resu;ted in the opinion editor being fired (though he is unapologetic to this day).

[isabelb@mastodon.ie]

@LisaDiFalco1

We all knew what an ambitious shit Streeting was, but as bad as PN were, they've nevertheless managed to wriggle under the very low bar they'd set themselves...

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@IsabelB

In the words of departed journalist Dawn Foster who knew Streeting at university when he was involved in the NUS: " He (Streeting) has always been a right-wing, lickspittle cunt ".

Pink News are not much better with their 'both sides' shite.

[harriettmb@toot.wales]

@IsabelB I saw it earlier and was disgusted.

[ciara@anarres.family]

@IsabelB I think this is an even worse option

[mxalba@blahaj.zone]

@IsabelB@mastodon.ie

But at least they've been thrown under an electric bus...

[imbl@social.treehouse.systems]

@RachelThornSub @IsabelB their reasoning is simple, they just fired all the trans people working there.

[jen@cultofshiv.wtf]

@IsabelB pink'news' has gone downhill so quickly. Hopefully they'll be gone soon

[rachelthornsub@famichiki.jp]

@imbl
Wait, what!?
@IsabelB

[imbl@social.treehouse.systems]

@RachelThornSub @IsabelB https://www.wearequeeraf.com/pinknews-to-move-to-a-reporter-free-newsroom-with-its-journalists-facing-redundancy/

no more journalists. take a look at the credited authors this past week versus a couple months ago. it's wes streeting, two guys, and "pinknews contributor" which im pretty sure is code for slop.

given that senior pinknews staff have been transphobic in the recent past, i think we can just assume pinknews is an arm of transphobia now.

[isabelb@mastodon.ie]

@imbl @RachelThornSub

I've thought so for a while now, but yes, absolutely, they're really plumbing the depths now...‍️

[revndm@queer.cool]

@IsabelB oh I didn’t realize they were shit…blocking now

[revndm@queer.cool]

@IsabelB on second thought I didn’t have them in my news feed, so yay!

[rachelthornsub@famichiki.jp]

@imbl @IsabelB Thank you for this link. This is shocking. I just learned about the sexual harassment/assault allegations earlier today, and this article seems to make it clear that Pink News will henceforth be slop. What a loss.

[rachelthornsub@famichiki.jp]

@imbl @IsabelB In happier news, I just became a paid subscriber to QueerAF.