What G. K. Chesterton thinks about simplicity

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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   Our readingThe popular press offends by being too tame, not by being too sensational

   journalism

   Their wordsI 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.

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