No More Page 3
| Motto | "No More Page 3" and "Boobs are not news" |
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| Founded | August 22, 2012 |
| Founder | Lucy-Anne Holmes |
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| Mission | To persuade the editor of The Sun to voluntarily remove topless models from Page 3 of its daily newspaper. |
| Website | nomorepage3 |
No More Page 3 was a successful campaign to stop The Sun from including pictures of topless glamour models on its Page 3; it ended when the topless feature was discontinued. The campaign was started by Lucy-Anne Holmes in August 2012; it reached 215,000 signatures by January 2015. The campaign gained widespread support from MPs and organisations but was criticised by Alison Webster, the photographer for Page 3. In January 2015, it was reported that The Sun had ended Page 3, but the feature was revived for one issue published on 22 January. Following that, Page 3 has not been featured in The Sun again.
The campaign began in August 2012, with a petition asking The Sun's then editor Dominic Mohan to remove images of topless women from Page 3. The petition accrued 84,000 signatures by March 2013 and by January 2015 the petition had reached 215,000 signatories. In February 2013, the campaign ran a Tweet Murdoch Day, asking supporters to flood The Sun's proprietor Rupert Murdoch with messages. The campaign also tried to persuade Lego to stop running promotions in The Sun. Lego confirmed in March 2013 that their tie-in would end but denied that the move was due to the campaign.
In August 2013, the editor of the Irish edition of the paper, Paul Clarkson, replaced the photograph of a topless model on Page 3 with a picture of a woman in swimwear. His decision was welcomed by Holmes. Dinsmore said in August 2013 that the Page 3 girl feature would remain in the UK despite campaigners calling for the Irish change to be copied there.
Following a 2013 Huffington Post article, discussing readers' potential attitudes towards models and Page 3's association with rape culture, which revealed comments made on the Daily Star's Page 3 website, the Daily Star removed all comments within a few days and permanently disabled the feature to comment on the page 3 section.
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