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Shortening The Sound Bite

By The Daily Dish

May 2 2008, 3:13 AM ET

Michael Schudson and Danielle Haas report on a new study:

Anyone who buys the beltway complaint that television news reporting shrivels both politics and public discourse has two new reasons to worry: sound bites are getting shorter and video reels are getting longer. That means less talk of policy solutions and more rolling shots of diplomatic handshakes, tarmac striding, and presidential cowboys whacking underbrush on Texas ranches.

Oh goody.



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