RIP the Pink Paper

[lovingboth]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1319767,00.html

Over the years, there have been lots of reasons to dislike it - at one point it was actively removing the b-word from articles - and some truly awful stories (my favourite was a 1988 front page that said Labour could win a by-election in Kensington, based on... asking a dozen people, none of whom had a vote, at 3am in some nightclub, not in the constituency. Yeah, that's a valid sample...)

But it's been better recently, I got my job via an ad in it, and I'll miss it.

Comments

[vampwillow]

Oh damn. I had an arrangement with them for some cheap pre-election advertising :-(

On the other hand, I hated the relaunched (mag) version and the way they pushed Capital Gay over the edge too. As it happens I found a broadsheet copy of the PP yesterday but even then it paled into insignificance against the great and original 'Gay News' weekly of the 1980's.

RIP indeed

[mankylarry.livejournal.com]

I'll miss it, I also remember Capital Gay and Gay News, and end of a Gay Tabloid era.

Manky

[lovingboth]

We stopped using them for work a while back - being able to target London, in two other places our clients use for the same price (or less!)

I quite like the magazine format, although I was jumping up and down with glee when the attempt to make it a paid-for flopped.

Did they push Cap Gay? I thought it was the arson attack that did that. They certainly immediately launched a Cap Gay-alike, kept it going for long enough to ensure that no-one else tried it - to protect Boyz's income - and then killed off what had become a good alternative when it was clear that no-one else was going to.

I don't remember the Pink being a broadsheet. Tabloid, yes...