Sound bite: “a short extract from a recorded interview or speech, chosen for its succinctness or concision.” Apparently the primary reason sound bites are important to Television news media is because of tight time restrictions. Remove the commercials plus the weather and sport from a 30-minute news service for example, and you’re left with about …
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Twice-A-Year Christians
I was speaking with a couple of people who told me, “we make sure we go to church twice a year … at Christmas time and Easter.” They had a proud kind of, “waddya-think-of-that?”-type look on their faces, so I responded with, “Big deal. It sounds to me like you believe you’re doing God a favor.” Each gave no …