stodgiest

I mean, you know, but the thing is, mainstream media is not a monolith, and there's a continuum that goes from "The National Enquirer," on one hand, to the "NewsHour" on the other, and the "NewsHour" is well known as the stodgiest and most cautious and conservative, not in the political sense, but in the tabloid sense.

CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008 2008

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I don't know who you're asking on the street, but when I say that I've written Dune novels, or Star Wars, or Star Trek, or comics, I get a genuinely enthusiastic and interested response even from the stodgiest of mundanes.

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