Could this be the end of Page 3?
The Sun‘s hideously sexist third page, featuring a topless woman every day, seems to be on the way out.
The Guardian‘s ever-vigilant media commentator Roy Greenslade pointed out earlier this week that the Sun hasn’t included its usual Page 3 content since Thursday last week, and suggested that the paper is “quietly weaning itself off” the page, which has been the subject of a great deal of feminist campaigning for years.
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation and devastating media overlord, has hinted in some tweets that he’d like to get rid of the so-called institution.
Here are his tweets:
Brit feminists bang on forever about page 3. I bet never buy paper I think old fashioned but readers seem to disagree.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) September 10, 2014
Page 3 again. Aren’t beautiful young women more attractive in at least some fashionable clothes? Your opinions please.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) September 10, 2014
These sexist comments could spell the end of the sexist practice.
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