Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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