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Pseudo-event

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, pseudo-event means: An event staged mainly to attract media coverage rather than to accomplish an independent purpose.

In Turkish: medya için düzenlenmiş olay, yapay gündem etkinliği

How it is used

Use analytically when the creation of publicity is central to why an event takes place.

Example sentences

  1. The columnist called the second ribbon-cutting a pseudo-event staged for television.

    Repeating a ceremony for coverage illustrates the publicity-driven character.

  2. Our seminar examined whether the televised challenge was a pseudo-event.

    The label questions the event's purpose, not whether it physically happened.

Common collocations

  • stage a pseudo-event
  • manufactured pseudo-event
  • media pseudo-event
  • newsworthyInteresting or important enough to be reported as news, for example because it is new, unusual, local, surprising or affects many people.
  • coverageThe way the media report an event or subject, and how much attention they give it, in print, online or on air.

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