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What is a sound bite?

What is a sound bite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
  2. (pejorative) A one-liner deliberately produced for this purpose; a statement specifically intended to be punchy and memorable.
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Disdain for the sound bite arises from its tendency to reduce complex issues to a few deceptively simple words.
To do that, we must turn our focus away from sound bite politics and actually work on addressing much more difficult issues in our society.
It just sounds like a really good sound bite so he turns around and does whatever he is going to do.
The crowd, which roared for nearly every sound bite, cheered lustily for Cain.
They don't even have time to serve up a sound bite, much less an interview.
Johnson embodies the era of sportscast by sound bite, and he is defined by his exuberance.

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