Daniel Boorstin from The Image (New York: Vintage, 1961) CHAPTER I From News Gathering to News Making: A Flood of Pseudo-Events ADMIRING FRIEND: My, that's a beautiful baby you have there MOTHER: Oh, that's nothin--you should see his photograph! THE SIMPLEST of our extravagant expectations concerns the amount of novelty in the world. There was a time when the reader of an unexciting ...

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