'Even in the age of YouTube and the soundbite,' says the Sunday Times, 'Barack Obama has proved that soaring, sustained oratory still has great power.' Nice, that 'even'.
YouTube was a huge contributing factor. It allowed the public to listen to far more of Obama's speeches at far greater length than any TV network would have allowed. YouTube worked against the soundbite culture.
A blackbird with a taste for musicals | Letters
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*Jane Horne *wonders if other readers hear well-known tunes in blackbird
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Reading Josie George’s article discussing her resident blackbird and its
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