Why Page 3 of tabloid 'The Sun' is making headlines

Are you being invited to these parties?

We’re not talking about the Indian version of Page 3.

Then?

The original. What appears in The Sun.

You mean page 3 is not party pictures?

Pictures, yes. But not of parties.

Then what?

Topless or nude models.

Oh boy! are we publishing them?

Of course not. And The Sun might stop publishing them. SORRY, I’VE LOST YOU. Well from 1970 onwards The Sun started publishing photographs of topless models on its Page 3. It became an institution of sorts.

Also in India?

Nah. We’re prudes. But many newspapers and magazines across the world picked up the trend.

Is The Sun a... you know that sort of magazine?

It’s a tabloid, the UK’s best-selling newspaper.

So people don’t mind? what about kids?

Well according to one of its editors, the pictures “cheer” up people.

I’m sure.

And also “in a culture that encourages plastic surgery such as breast implants, Page 3 girls are an advertisement for natural beauty”.

If that’s the case why stop now?

Because Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the paper, thinks topless models are “old fashioned” and has asked readers if they find “beautiful young women more attractive in at least some fashionable clothes?”

Isn’t it too late to be politically correct?

Never too late.