Try saying this lede — from the Wall Street Journal‘s Digits blog today– five times, fast, aloud:
A heated, multimedia gay-marriage discussion spanning YouTube, blogs, Twitter, Larry King and The Hills ensued after Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean answered a question about the topic during the pageant’s question-and-answer period, sparking more than one million views of the clip, debates on cable news and even a tweet from Britney Spears.
Phew. (And the award for Forcing All of This Week’s Most-Googled Words Into A Single Sentence Without Regard For Reader’s Comprehension goes to…)
Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.