MCC-UE 1028 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Celebrity Culture, The Graphic
27 Feb 2017
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Boorstin: from news gathering to news making: a flood of pseudo-events. The mass media presents us w/spectacular illusion Director, museum of history & technology, smithsonian institute. Prolific writer - more than 20 books. We are haunted not by reality, but those images we have put in place of reality. It may help us to discover that we cannot make the world in our image . His polemic begins w/an assault on the news industry . The pseudo event has replaced, for the most part, real news. Example of a pseudo event a magazine interview or coverstory. A genre of mass media that attempts to gain widespread publicity & visibility. Ex. interviews, events meant to foster publicity - for the individual, for the show, for a product/service/policy. In the 1960s, daniel j. boorstin identified a category of media spectacle that he called pseudo-events, which were created to be reported on.
