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Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 08:24 PM Jan 2015

Page 3 is the one page of The Sun I don't object to.


There is nothing wrong per se with selling images of consenting naked adults for purposes of titillation.

What is a problem, however, is when titillation and journalism become mixed.

Page 3 is the one page of The Sun that doesn't have this problem. They shouldn't get rid of it, they should expand the concept to the rest of the paper, making it clear what it is that they are selling, and move it to the appropriate shelving section.
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