Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyway, yes, as we were saying, only that which is exciting, to a pitch that is fully appreciable within the enriching spiritual'n'intelluctal crucible framework of the Sound-bite, enraptures the Media Man--and so he went away. I, however, decided to stay. And see the demonstration, before it got on the radio and became The Demonstration...
...those things which are immediately appreciable as dynamic and exiciting, such as famine war and pestilence and otherwise exciting and sound-biteable things like charisma, Madonna, valuable political wisdom, the lifespan of the common gnat, poll results, arms agreements, editorial comments, earth evaporating nuclear strikes...hey, what a Sound Bite that would be, get that on all the networks, yeah boy. News Flash! and we do mean flash. And we do mean bite. And we do mean noise. BAWOOOOM !... as Calvin and Hobbes say. But I'm not worried because my government has everything under the Stars safe from Wars...
They basked in their 15 minutes of fame (coverage in The Crimson, anyway) and then stayed on stage for more. A bite-size article in the Wall Street Journal was next, followed by a feature in the New York Times, a wire story by the Associated Press, interviews with radio stations around the country and the coup de grace, last month's interview on CBS Morning News...