“I don’t think it’s immoral or indecent or anything,” said Rupert Murdoch of Page 3. “But show it to me in any other newspaper I own. Never in America, never in Australia. Never. Never. Never. It just would not be accepted.”
Even in the super soaraway Sun, he admitted to an interviewer from India Today, the daily parade of topless lovelies was “getting a bit old-fashioned. One day it will come out.”
That was in 1994. And this week, 45 years after the first flash of unadorned boob in the tabloid, 29 years after the Labour MP Clare Short attempted to ban the feature, 26 years after the launch editor said he regretted introducing it and an impressive 21 years after the proprietor himself admitted it was well past its time, the Sun at last set on Page 3.
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