I have been thinking about that repeating narrative a lot lately.
"Balance the budget!" It's the endlessly repeated narrative heard in Washington.
For weeks, we were told that political incumbents were toast until they weren't in the recent election, but few media outlets let the facts get in the way of their Tea Party reinforced and endlessly repeated narrative.
The army does not need to spoon-feed the statements to the witnesses as fear is more than enough to make them repeat the narrative propagated by the government about armed militias and radical Islamists.
They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again".
Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man trilogy of films repeated the narrative arc, but did so over the course of three movies rather than one.
But I'm no longer willing to accept any presidential candidate or current sitting president repeating a narrative of absenteeism and condescension.
Iñárritu has been such an exciting film-maker until now, but in simply repeating the narrative device, he looks like a one-trick pony and Babel has the unfortunate effect of retrospectively diminishing the value of his previous two films.
Ciaran O'Brien, Ladbrokes press director, said the company "does have concerns about a repeated negative narrative among certain local authorities around betting shops that is driven by a religious or moral agenda based on the misleading use of data".
And parenting is the real problem here – not the often repeated media narrative of The Troubled Black Teenager upon which society inflicts so many ills, but the long overlooked and systemic problem of the broken black family.
