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Pseudo-Events Clash -- Martin E. Marty

More than a half century ago, historian Daniel J. Boorstin—a Ph.D. dissertation-adviser of mine—taught us to distinguish between events and pseudo-events. The latter, he noted, were staged to get media attention whether anything event-ful had happene...

September 29, 2014