Swim4life
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: sound bite-friendly |
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China�s fast-evolving financial industry, like the country itself, defies the type of easy, sound bite-friendly synopses that foreign investors might like.
What's the meaning of "sound bite-friendly"? Thanks. |
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CP
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Location: California
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: |
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A sound bite is a short clip of something said by someone that can be played in a newscast (or an opinion show that calls itself news), hopefully something pithy and to the point.
Suppose there is a country whose economy is sagging, a country where everyone takes six weeks off for vacation every year. You see a short story on the news about this country, with a clip of some politician saying, "The problem with Slothland is, they're all on vacation. Nobody's minding the shop!"
That's a simple sound bite summing up the problem and implying the solution -- get to work, Slothland! It's just a small part of what the politician said, but enough to get across his entire message.
Well, China and its fast-evolving financial industry are too complicated to be reduced to some simple sound bite like that.
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