I remember a barrage of fragmented commands as her voice went to silence in my mind and my anger took over: "Don't talk to the media.
We live in an age of fragmentation: fragmented communities, fragmented lives, fragmented attention.
But those who can read Chinese know that the party is ever present, speaking to the masses from billboards and banners in a fragmented monologue that commands, encourages and occasionally entreats citizens to follow the plan for a better tomorrow.
The first information received was certainly fragmented and it took the Command some time to nail down the sequence of events.
Under the current, much less impressive, leadership, central command is even more fragmented.
Command and control of the air defenses was fragmented, and the IJAAF and IJN did not coordinate their activities or communicate with each other.
In this ever-fragmented pop world, not many artists can command the Super Bowl stage on their own: even Madonna, who helped shape the MTV era largely because of a white dress and her ability to gyrate, had MIA, Nicki Minaj and LMFAO grafted on to her half-time show in 2012.
Still, you can expand only so far in a fragmented industry where the five biggest players now command just 40% market share.
Yet, without mediation between the government's command of the narrative and social media's fragmented, reactive style of justice, the truth and complexity of any incident are likely to remain elusive.
Its retail business in Germany, which generated almost €10 billion in revenues last year, commands only an 11% share of a heavily fragmented, unionised market in which myriad state-backed rivals depress returns.
