The British tabloid newspaper The Sun Will discontinue the controversial tradition of having a bare-breasted young woman on the newspaper’s third page.
The information comes from the British The Times that, like The Sun, owned by media mogul Robert Murdoch. According to Tuesday’s The Times was the topless model who was pictured in the Friday the last of its kind.
The four-decades-old tradition of “page-three girls” has long been criticized and considered sexist. Even Murdoch himself described it last year as “old fashioned”.
The Sun is one of Britain’s most widely read newspapers, and a petition to stop the topless pictures have previously collected more than 217,000 signatures.
Campaign Group “No more page 3″ now welcomes the announcement and call it “a truly historic day and a great day for the people’s power.”
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