Bite This

A study by Eric Bucy found that the 2004 election brought more candidate "image bites" than sound bites to televised newscasts. An image bite is when a candidate's image is seen, but they aren't heard from. More VOs than SOTs.
To me, it's an understandable conclusion. The story count for television news is up while the newscasts alloted time has stayed the same.
Now in 2008 the use of the internet for news coverage is commonplace. I am guessing that if you were to compare sound bites and image bites on the internet the results would be much different than traditional television news. You just might find more sound bites on the web than image bites.
The constraints of a televised newscast are no longer dictated by the clock.
Not only can we get more news, but we can get the news we want.