“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.” WorldWayBelieveCountryProblemFoundPoliticsLostSoundLinesAudienceIssuesNewsSolutionsArgumentComplexesNotionCandidatesHelpfulVotersBitesAdsEfficientSlogansAssemblyAssertionFreezeIdentificationVisceralSound BitesAssembly LineComplex Problems Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson
“Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.” MenRunningDogNewsMathematicsThanksJournalistBitesDog Bite Book:How the Mind Works Source: How the Mind Works
“That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!” WaterWalksNewsAssBitesSharks Author:Carlos Mencia
“I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.” ThinkingFactsCultureSoundPoliticianNewsBitesPopular CultureSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsLongSometimesFactsAbleSoundMediaSpeechNewsFolksComplicatedDespiteBitesConventionalNews MediaSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“I think we - "we," meaning the media - have generally caused Americans to consume news in smaller, less contextualized bites. I think we have sugar-coated the news. I think we have provided news that is consumable, at the expense of news that is more important. I think we have created a world in which extreme views push out moderate views.” ThinkingWorldImportantViewsMediaNewsExtremesExpensesBitesSugarModerates Author:Ali Velshi
“Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.” KnowsTryingBelieveStillsHardFactsSeemsLastsSoundMediaNewsArmyDepthExpertsBitesLooking BackShockingConfusingNews MediaContradictingSound Bites Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War