sound bites
Brief broadcast excerpts
Sound bites are brief, quotable excerpts from speeches or interviews, selected for broadcast or publication because they capture a point memorably: The candidate's speech was reduced to a few sound bites on the evening news.
The term often carries negative connotations—that complex ideas get reduced to catchy phrases.
Politicians and media figures craft statements with sound bites in mind, knowing only fragments will be repeated.
- soundbiteBrief broadcast excerpt
- snippetSmall cut portion
- sloganMemorable promotional phrase
- talking pointsPrepared discussion themes
- on the recordOpenly stated, quotable
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- audioheadphones, audio track, volume control, noise, static
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- News Coveragelive broadcast, press pass, interviews, photo ops, press pool
- publicitypublicity, PR, press conference, publicist, press release
- recordingsaudio recording, albums, studio albums, video recording, live albums
- snippetssnippet, snippets, clips, shorts, tidbit
sound bitestreatises
Formal scholarly compositions
dissertations · monographs · in-depth analysis · keynote addresses · filibusters
sound bitesin-depth reporting
Thorough, detailed news coverage
policy papers · white papers · position papers · academic discourse · deep dive
sound bitesfull coverage
Protection without exclusions
in-depth reporting · podcasts · panel discussions · town halls · raw footage
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