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| | Telegraph | Arts | Between a high mind and a low life |
 | | Hargreaves notes that the tension between the two was evident from the moment a popular, mass circulation press came into being. |
 | | Henry Hetherington launched the Poor Man's Guardian in 1831, refusing to pay newspaper stamp duty, and insisting in his first issue that his paper would advocate the cause of "the poor, the suffering, the industrious, the productive classes. |
 | | Yet within two years, the high-minded Hetherington had to fund the Poor Man's Guardian with the Twopenny Dispatch, which promised a diet of "murders, rapes, suicides, burnings, maimings, theatricals, races, pugilism and every sort of devilment that will make it sell". |
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