Word: harmsworth
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Researching the Fleet Street career of G.K. Chesterton for a biography, I found it amusing to note that the staid London Times [March 2] was taken over in 1908 by a vulgar, pushy publisher, Alfred Harmsworth, who was known for his yellow journalism. Chesterton wrote that while "almost everybody attacks the Times on the ground it is very sensational, very violent and vulgar and startling, I say this journalism offends by being not sensational or violent enough. The vague idea that our yellow press is sensational arises from such external accidents as large type or lurid headlines [which] are soothing...