Pseudo events

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an event arranged or brought about merely for the sake of the publicity it generates, especially one designed to appear spontaneous or unplanned.


Examples:

News Pundits

Canned tourism

Celebrities


Coined by Daniel J. Boorstin in The Image: a guide to pseudo-events in America, published in 1961 in New York

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