Insight: Has the Sun’s page 3 jape backfired? - The Scotsman

Insight: Has the Sun’s page 3 jape backfired? - The Scotsman



Insight: Has the Sun’s page 3 jape backfired? - The Scotsman http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/insight-has-the-sun-s-page-3-jape-backfired-1-3670270



"The Sun had hoped to quietly phase Page 3 out, they say, but the move attracted so much attention from triumphalist campaigners and the anti-censorship brigade, it felt obliged to bring it back. Whatever, aided by the Charlie Hebdo atrocity, the newspaper managed to spin the U-turn as a political gesture. As Je Suis Page 3 – a hijacking of the Je Suis Charlie slogan – started appearing here and there on social media, it seized the opportunity to present itself, not as an anachronism peddling the prejudices of a bygone era, but as a crusader taking a stand against left-wing ideologues."