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Peter Preston: Tabloids must be free to offend

guardian.co.uk » 2008 » November » 15th » Peter Preston: Tabloids must be free to offend

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On Monday 4 May 1896, Alfred Harmsworth published his first Daily Mail. Now see how what goes around comes around. Harmsworth's triumph was inventing a paper that appealed to a totally new, young audience - 'by office boys, for office boys' sniffed Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. It wasn't elitist. It was avowedly popular and populist, with sales figures to match. On 9 November 2008, the editor … Continue Reading »

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