Is TV Making Us Better Communicators?

Are we learning to be savvy communicators through osmosis?

Peggy Noonan's column today implies the media is unconsciously training us to speak in sound bites ...

"The most dismaying thing I've noticed the past 10 years on television is that ordinary people who are guests on morning news shows--the man who witnessed the murder, the housewife who ran from the flames--speak, now, in perfect sound bites. They also cry on cue. They used to ramble, like unsophisticated folk, and try to keep their emotions to themselves."