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...report. You decide." As p.r. pablum, the Fox news network's tagline isn't bad. But as it turns out, its claim to objectivity may be a bit of stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bushy-Looking Fox Leading the TV Sheep? | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...report. You decide." As p.r. pablum, the Fox news network's tagline isn't bad. But as it turns out, its claim to objectivity may be a bit of stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bushy-Looking Fox Leading the TV Sheep? | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...Bush did well on the affirmative action question, I thought. And Gore's response was OK. Clinton woulda blown them both out of the water with a big riff on bringing people together. It might have all been pablum but he would have done it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush vs. Gore III: A Round-by-Round Analysis | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...chaos spilled into the open as Reno prepared her decision on the White House phone calls. Arguing on one side was Radek, who advised against an outside counsel. On the other was LaBella, who said Radek's legal reasoning amounted to "pablum." Last Tuesday, before her announcement, Reno tried some shuttle diplomacy. She took a hard-to-miss walk across Pennsylvania Avenue to FBI headquarters, both to consult Freeh and to be seen consulting him. And Reno was careful to say a few hours later that the investigation proceeds. Just where it will lead has a lot to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY THE RENO-FREEH SPAT RUNS DEEP | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY. The bachelor trio (Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson) of the 1987 box-office champ Three Men and a Baby are now in charge of a six-year-old. The jokes and plot lines are way older, and everyone plays breathlessly cute. Pablum for the masses: it'll make zillions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 3, 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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