Reduced to soundbites, the first sounded callous and the second like a flip-flop.
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But with a general election probably only a year away, the temptation to trade soundbites on crime is becoming irresistible.
There will, most probably, be a colourful successor: an Iacocca figure, full of smart soundbites and passion for the product.
There's no good soundbites to ring out there on the hustings, and I think it's just easier to punt right now.
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They are often polemical and historical and with an eye on the news bulletins, each address is naturally sprinkled with soundbites.
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He has already tapped into the feeling that England's followers have had enough of words, empty gestures, well-rehearsed soundbites and false promises.
Both will look okay once they are reduced to 20-second TV soundbites.
At the most, you might get two minutes, the rest are soundbites.
At the same time, they must grab the attention of the majority, who do not vote at all, with ten-second soundbites and 30-second negative commercials.
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As for segments on the nightly news, he may not be a worse public speaker than Mr Gore, but his speeches remain idiosyncratically empty of soundbites.
They immediately launch into a series of soundbites about the quality of their talent initiatives, the number of high-potentials in the nine box, blah, blah, blah.
Even the pre-scripted soundbites have been pretty poor of late.
Deciphering the Pope's often dense theological language, analysing his long sentences replete with subordinate clauses, makes the selection of pithy soundbites a real challenge to Vatican radio and TV reporters.
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Instead it seems we regularly prefer pithy soundbites that support our world view rather than intelligent arguments that challenge us to learn and expand our understanding and the media is no different.
Yet beyond these soundbites, little is still known about what the man who might be the next Pentagon chief really thinks about one of the most pressing strategic challenges confronting the United States.
Mr. ROBIN HOOVER (Humane Borders): I suspect that there will be groups that have opposing views and so the media will at least get to hear some other soundbites from folks that have more diverse views.
It is impossible to really convey the history of Apple (AAPL) and Jobs in a string of blog posts, articles or even some soundbites from a 60 Minutes interview or a 1 hour TV special.
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