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The popular press offends by being too tame, not by being too sensational

Drawn from what G. K. Chesterton said

Subjectssimplicityjournalism
What these subjects mean

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

journalism How reporting is made and why to believe it: sourcing conventions, incentives, and reading across biased accounts.

What G. K. Chesterton actually said

  1. G. K. Chesterton English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936)
    I am speaking in no affected contrariety, but in the simplicity of a genuine personal impression, when I say that this journalism offends as being not sensational or violent enough. The real vice is not that it is startling, but that it is quite insupportably tame.

    Where this was said

    ↗Heretics (1905)gutenberg.org

    c. 1905

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