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What redeems the show (produced by that master of '70s fluff, Aaron Spelling) is its laid-back respect for the characters and a refreshing lack of sanctimony. The Walsh parents are neither saints nor bumblers, and their offspring are among the few TV teens who actually seem capable of reaching ethical decisions on their own. Best of all, viewers can take a vicarious peek at Beverly Hills decadence while keeping their moral distance. When Brandon lands a dream job as cabana boy at a swank beach club, he is forced to quit his low-paying job at a diner without...
...entries are striving to fill what many see as a substantial gap in local TV news. In large metropolitan areas, stations cannot come close to covering the welter of communities that make up their region -- especially with more and more air time being devoted to sensational crimes, celebrity fluff and network promotions ("The real story behind Switched at Birth -- at 11"). Cable systems, which serve more circumscribed areas, have jumped in with a fresh twist: the news they provide is hyperlocal...
...only must the food be healthy, the plate must look healthy too. "Here it does not matter what you order; what you get is a salad with something in it," says Jivan Tabibian, a partner in the L.A. Remi. "New Yorkers like substance. In Santa Monica, they like fluff -- and the fluff is roughage...
...first to experiment with magazine-style elements, in features like its "Person of the Week." Yet the newscast hews most closely to the fading verities of network news: it pays the most attention to international affairs, seems the least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post in New York City. Some viewers and critics got a charge...
...Greenpeace, some new -- is striving for a mainstream audience, feeding on the growing awareness of a planetary threat. "The world is going to hell, and people are reading about soap operas," scolds Doug Moss, founder of E, a year-old bimonthly (circ. 75,000), who sees his competition as "fluff magazines that I wish would go away." New titles like Garbage, Buzzworm and Design Spirit -- all aimed at general readers -- have joined Audubon, Mother Earth News and other more established journals that have recently increased their emphasis on environmental concerns...