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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
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- In Daniel J. Boorstin
Boorstin’s other notable works include The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), in which he argued that many events are staged for publicity purposes and have little real value; the book was inspired by the televised U.S. presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.…
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pseudo-events
- In pseudo-event
Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), his book about the effects of media publicity and advertising on political and social practices in the United States in the 1950s. Boorstin defined a pseudo-event as an ambiguous truth that appeals to people’s desire to…
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