pseudo-event
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Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the "pseudo-event."
From Fox News
Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the “pseudo-event.”
From Seattle Times
The "Life, Liberty & Levin" host called the impeachment inquiry a "pseudo-event in the un-reality that they created to humiliate the president."
From Fox News
It is also a charming diversion and an estimable pseudo-event—a see-now-buy-now spectacular for the society of spectacle.
From The New Yorker
A “pseudo-event,” in Boorstin’s telling, is any happening that exists primarily so that it can be reported upon and debated.
From The New Yorker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
