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pseudo-event

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pseu·do-e·vent (sd--vnt)
n. Informal
An event that has been caused to occur or staged to engender press coverage and public interest: "Polls have become the quintessential pseudo-events of the preprimary campaign" (Edward M. Kennedy).


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Watching images of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton intermingling on the "Celeb" commercial and seeing Tina Fey out-Palin Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," one could be excused for thinking of this year's presidential contest as a spectacular "pseudoevent," the term historian Daniel Boorstin coined in his 1961 classic The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America.
Among other characteristics, the distinguishing feature of a pseudo-event is that it is planned for the primary purpose of making news.
Already in 1961 Daniel Boorstin spoke of pseudo-events, which he defined as activities self-consciously crafted for media reporting.
 
 
 
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