Modern day politics has become the stuff of sound bites. Every night on the various, biased news channels and web sites, we see what electronic media has done to real people - they've created avatars - electronic personalities that only exist within the ether. Prime example is our main man, Prince George W. II. With his charming good looks and austere command of the English language, he's become the ultimate symbol of the sound bite. His speeches are to put it nicely, rather clumsily dealt to cringing audiences all over the world, yet what we see back in our "real" existence are bits and pieces of said speeches (sound bites) that make the fool sound like a hero whose eloquence has no bounds.
We could use Comedy Central's Daily Show as a prime example of using the sound bite to spin certain political quandaries. On the other hand, FOX television uses sound bites as if they were wielding military weapons, in such vitriolic spin as to make us wonder what is real and what isn't.
Now You Tube has entered the act, and one is left to wonder who exactly is pulling these puppet strings behind the stage. Is it sheer genius, or is it just a result of the natural evolution of politics towards the simulacra, the fake, the formulated, the surreal.
We could use Comedy Central's Daily Show as a prime example of using the sound bite to spin certain political quandaries. On the other hand, FOX television uses sound bites as if they were wielding military weapons, in such vitriolic spin as to make us wonder what is real and what isn't.
Now You Tube has entered the act, and one is left to wonder who exactly is pulling these puppet strings behind the stage. Is it sheer genius, or is it just a result of the natural evolution of politics towards the simulacra, the fake, the formulated, the surreal.
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