pseudo-events

As you probably already know, the most important meeting of modern political minds happened this week in New York City when fake presidential candidate Donald Trump met up with semi-fake presidential candidate Sarah Palin to discuss whatever it is that wealthy pseudo-celebrities discuss when they're not out creating pseudo-events other than the one they're creating by meeting up in the first place.

Jon Stewart Blasts Trump In Apoplectic Rant About New York City Pizza (VIDEO) 2011

Naturally, the story was well-hyped on the Drudge Report, our great chronicler of pseudo-events.

Milbank: GOP Has Entered The 'Post-Post-9/11 Era' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

I immediately thought of Daniel Boorstin, who in his book The Image wrote about "pseudo-events" and synthetic news creation.

Vinnie Rotondaro: The Mikhail Prokhorov Media Experience, In Brooklyn 2010

Naturally, the story was well-hyped on the Drudge Report, our great chronicler of pseudo-events.

Milbank: GOP Has Entered The 'Post-Post-9/11 Era' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Naturally, the story was well-hyped on the Drudge Report, our great chronicler of pseudo-events.

Milbank: GOP Has Entered The 'Post-Post-9/11 Era' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

I immediately thought of Daniel Boorstin, who in his book The Image wrote about "pseudo-events" and synthetic news creation.

Vinnie Rotondaro: The Mikhail Prokhorov Media Experience, In Brooklyn 2010

But pseudo-events, whether they show the president in an auto plant or a soup kitchen or addressing troops in Iraq, are immune to this deflation.

Buying Brand Obama 2009

This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes.

Buying Brand Obama 2009

Those who succeed in politics, as in most of the culture, are those who create the brands and pseudo-events that offer the most convincing fantasies.

Buying Brand Obama 2009

It's the story of an America that has transferred its allegiance to spectacle, to pseudo-events, that no longer can determine what is real and what is illusion, that confuses how they're made to feel with knowledge, that confuses propaganda with ideology, and that's exceedingly dangerous.

OpEdNews - Diary: Chris Hedges' Extraordinary New Book "Empire of Illusion" 2009