It had the auspices of a pseudo-event: something that felt created, almost forcefully pushed into existence.
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Mostly, though, they manage to stage an elaborate pseudo-event and to bamboozle millions of people into paying attention.
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" A pseudo-event, Boorstin wrote, was, first, "not spontaneous, but comes about because someone has planned, planted or incited it.
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This means he is the master of the pseudo-event, the artificial happening that exists to generate TV coverage but leaves no lasting mark.
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He released a 100 days pledge document full of big legislative initiatives and appears to be letting a media pseudo-event dictate actual policymaking.
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A Congress member, with the help of right-wing media and organized technological efforts, created a pseudo-event with the promise of new information at the end of it.
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The piece itself falls into the category of "pseudo-event," an artificial occurrence around which the media and political elite spin that is aptly described by Daniel J. Boorstin in his seminal book, The Image.
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In spite of occasional public scolding about the rampant misuse of allegorical interpretation, hard-pressed, click-seeking cultural journalists and political pundits can be counted on to take up the hard work of finding echoes, resonances and subtexts in a big pop-cultural pseudo-event.
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Does the world in 2019, for instance, really need 20 pages on the "Beer Summit" — the 2009 pseudo-event in which Biden and Obama hoisted beers in the Rose Garden with the black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the white Cambridge police officer who mistakenly arrested him?
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The Nunes memo, like the Super Bowl, is what Daniel Boorstin called a "pseudo-event," which is basically a made-up (or trumped-up) drama, the chief purpose of which is to give people something to talk about in a way that benefits the political or corporate interests of whoever invented the drama in the first place.
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Groundhog Day annual ceremony A media event, also known as a pseudo-event, is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of media publicity. It may also include any event that is covered in the mass media or was hosted largely with the media in mind. Media events may center on a news announcement, an anniversary, a news conference, or planned events like speeches or demonstrations. Instead of paying for advertising time, a media or pseudo-event seeks to use public relations to gain media and public attention. The term pseudo-event was coined by the theorist and historian Daniel J. Boorstin in his 1961 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America: “The celebration is held, photographs are taken, the occasion is widely reported.” The term is closely related to idea of hyperreality and thus postmodernism, although Boorstin's coinage predates the two ideas and related work of postmodern thinkers such as Jean Baudrillard.
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In The Image, Boorstin describes shifts in American culture – mainly due to advertising – where the reproduction or simulation of an event becomes more important or "real" than the event itself. He goes on to coin the term pseudo-event, which describes events or activities that serve little to no purpose other than to be reproduced through advertisements or other forms of publicity.
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" It can be considered a non-fiction novel about his life. Dick has influenced many writers, including Jonathan LethemMiddlehurst, Charlotte. "Jonathan Lethem to Appear in Shanghai Time Out Shanghai (September 26, 2011) and Ursula K. Le Guin.The SF Site Featured Review: The Lathe of Heaven, SF Site The prominent literary critic Fredric Jameson proclaimed Dick the "Shakespeare of Science Fiction", and praised his work as "one of the most powerful expressions of the society of spectacle and pseudo-event".
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Similarly, Elihu Katz outlines the defining characteristics of a media event as: immediate (i.e., it is broadcast live), organized by a non- media entity, containing ceremonial and dramatic value, preplanning, and centering on a personality, whether that be a single person or a group A number of video artists have explored the concept of a pseudo-event. The group Ant Farm especially plays with pseudo events, though not so identified, in their works "Media Burn" (1975) and "The Eternal Frame" (1975).
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16, 2014, the NFL fined him $100,000. Award ceremonies, red carpet events and celebrity photo opportunities are all considered a type of media event, where the event is orchestrated for the purpose of introducing a chosen narrative into the media. Sex tapes when created with the intention of being 'leaked' are a form of pseudo event because their purpose is to generate media attention. A protest may be planned almost exclusively for the purpose of getting media attention to an issue or cause.
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William Safire, "On Language; In Nine Little Words", The New York Times, 26 March 1989. Accessed 2 February 2018. The term has acquired a negative connotation, referring to a carefully planned pseudo-event, often masqueraded as news."Commentary (The Photo Opportunity)", from CBS Evening News for Saturday, July 27, 1991; at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive It is associated with politicians who perform tasks such as planting trees, picking up litter, and visiting senior citizens, often during election cycles, with the intent of photographers catching the events, generating positive publicity.
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