No, this time it’s not about Sarah Palin.  This is about our local television station, WLOS, and whoever the hack is who edits their news segments.

(I apologize in advance for the links — WLOS forces you to watch a commercial before they play the news clip.  But I have no other way to tell the story, so please bear with.)

I don’t know what they call the technique used here (interlacing?) but yes, when I watch it, it drives me nuts.  The editor seems to think it is the height of creativity when the subject is only allowed to deliver one sentence (more often, a phrase) before he/she is interrupted by the reporter, who also utters one sentence or fragment thereof, then back-and-forth they go, in this mad game of narrative ping-pong until the story ends.

Nuts?  You want nuts?  Then watch this one.  Warning: you may get a concussion just sitting there, as your brain bounces with ever-increasing speed inside your skull.