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"Rupert Murdoch has hinted that the days of Page 3 girls appearing in The Sun could be coming to an end.  The paper has previously resisted all calls from campaigners - including Labour MP Clare Short - to stop printing photographs of topless women on page 3, with its editor Dominic Mohan defending the feature as being an &amp;quot;innocuous British institution&amp;quot;.  But Murdoch revealed in a conversation on Twitter that he is &amp;quot;considering&amp;quot; the future of Page 3.   After a fellow Twitter user commented that Page 3 was &amp;quot;so last century&amp;quot;, the News Corporation chief executive responded: &amp;quot;Page three so last century! You maybe right, don&amp;#039;t know but considering. Perhaps halfway house with glamorous fashionistas.&amp;quot; A News International spokesperson gave a &amp;#039;no comment&amp;#039; statement to The Guardian on the future plans for Page 3. Page 3 has featured in The Sun since 1970 and is also part of several other tabloid papers, such as Richard Desmond&amp;#039;s Daily Star. The page has spawned the careers of various celebrities, including Samantha Fox and Jordan (Katie Price), but it has also attracted criticism. Facebook campaign group &amp;#039;No More Page 3&amp;#039; claims that Page 3 is an outdated, sexist throwback to the 1970s, and they have targeted supermarkets with protests for selling the paper.   The campaign has launched a petition calling on Mohan to &amp;quot;Take the Bare Boobs Out of The Sun&amp;quot;, which has attracted more than 64,000 signatures. The group has also staged protests outside the offices of The Sun publisher News International. &amp;#039;No More Page 3&amp;#039; will no doubt have been heartened by the actions of Germany&amp;#039;s Bild newspaper last year. Coinciding with International Women&amp;#039;s Day in March 2012, Bild stopped featuring topless women on its front cover.  The paper had published pictures of more than 5,000 &amp;#039;Bild Girls&amp;#039;, but a topless blonde named Eva was the final model to appear on the front page of the mass circulation title.  In an editorial at the time, the paper said: &amp;quot;It is perhaps a small step for women, but a big step for Bild and men.&amp;quot;   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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