Sun Drops Page 3

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Very quietly, it would appear.

More here

No page 3 nudity today - hurrah.

I think it's probably on its way out too. Not only do they not need page 3 for sales, but some outlets deliberately don't stock the sun because of page 3. It's not in its interests.

I repeat - the NMP3 campaign has got the dreadful way women are portrayed in the media into the media. And that will probably be a good thing.

I did feel the celebrations were premature as I knew the Sun wouldn't want to let the 'feminazis' win. I didn't expect they'd pull this stunt though.
I doubt it was planned, I think it was just a last minute fuck-you.

I think it will gradually fade out and be replaced by wet t.shirts or arses or something equally wonderful.
Ive heard that no one working on the paper wants it or likes it - but they put it in there for white van man as they are so afraid of losing him.

Olbasaddict Thu 22-Jan-15 20:37:28

I am absolutely disgusted by the actions of that revolting, evil rag. These shameful men have treated women with absolute contempt...what kind of society do we live in where women are seen as nothing but objects of mockery and there to be humiliated, with OUR bodies used as THEIR weapons to hurt us with. I am not sure my opinion of men can get any lower right now. It feels like a personal attack.

^ This is exactly how I feel about all of this.

no publicity is bad publicity.they have certainly kept us talking about them this last week!

The way the head of PR Dyl has behaved on Twitter has made me think the whole paper should be scrapped.

Re earlier posts....is there a page 3 girl in today's edition??

hopefully the paper will go bust now

Apparently not, ladyblahblah.

They often miss days. Suspect the gaps will get longer between when they feature it.

Miranda Kerr is on page 3.

I think The Sun will never officially scrap it. They will try and quietly phase it out, I think people should let it.

That's not a bad policy mengog.

I don't like it but it's not a reason to ban it.

I vote with my feet. Crap paper, not worth 10p, let alone 40.

I expect the print media are all going to have to do a bit better than they currently are to survive.

Which one is going to be the bravest and start reporting actual fucking news again? That's what interests me, tbh. Not a pair of tits (and I'mnot talking about Cameron and Clegg...).

The NMP3 campaign has never asked for it to be banned. Never.

Did anyone see Dylan Sharpes Apology(NonApology). What a load of whiney pissbaby toss.

(In other good news, by midnight last night the petition had got 18,000 new signatures )

The NMP3 has simply asked for it to be discontinued.

And for the sun to be displayed with Nuts, etc on a high shelf- rather than at eye-level with children.

"I don't like it but it's not a reason to ban it."

No one is banning it. The campaign is asking the Sun (very politely) to pull a feature. The government isn't banning it. Ofcom isn't banning it. We are asking the editor to make a voluntary business decision.

" I vote with my feet."

Its not about whether you read it, or I read it. Its the fact that Page 3 is here, in the midst of our society, read by millions and available in cafes, left on bus seats and park benches, reinforcing the idea that women are sex objects.

Its existence harms all women, whether you personally buy it or not.

BINGO!

This made the morning news in Canada this morning

Great, isn't it? The Sun yo-yos on P3, while it's ostensibly more respectable big brother The Times reports the 'news' and (from what I heard yesterday on the radio) writes jokey editorials about it.

I much prefer my news via a medium which features full-frontal male nudity ... Radio 4! (PC Burns in the shower on The Archers a few days back)

But also lots of publicity for the NMP3 campaign, which probably has lower brand awareness than The Sun - so yay!

Eve no I didn't - was he made to apologise to those he tweeted? He really is whiny piss baby. Fun seeing him on twitter though. Really is a new & novel approach to Public Relations that's for sure.

I'll see if I can find a link Sauce

Let's see if this works

www.buzzfeed.com/richardhjames/the-suns-head-of-pr-dylan-sharpe-apologises-for-page-3-tweet?s=mobile

It works!

(Strangely his TL showed no death threats, but I suppose they could have been sent by DM)

Errol noooooo to archers shower scenes! Cringe cringe and jolene was vomit-inducing afterwards!

The only mildly 'threatening language' was from men in reply to the tweets he sent. None from the campaign or women. Making out that women are doing what men are actually doing seems to be a bit of a feature of misogynistic whiny manbabies of late.