selling the cheap petrol. By high noon, people were yelling at each other to keep the line moving, and the cops were called in to shut down what was fast turning into an unpredictable scrum.
All of this was orchestrated as part of a many tentacled get-out-the-vote Emmy campaign orchestrated by the internet giant. As dusk fell on Maisel Day, thousands of posts had been uploaded to social-media accounts. If the present cultural moment seems less like an historical continuum and more like a clean break, it’s only because we have shorter memories. Fifty-seven years ago, historian Daniel J. Boorstin sent out a red flare to the future in the form of a short book called– which should be required reading in schools across the United States and beyond.As one of the American century’s most celebrated historians, who was appointed Librarian of Congress by then-president Gerald Ford in 1975, Mr.
In 1962, Mr. Boorstin was using the term “pseudo-event” to condemn the cozy symbiosis between newspapers and TV and the emerging class of political spin merchants. John F. Kennedy, that canny, media-savvy charmer, was sitting in the Oval Office during the time Mr. Boorstin was writing, and the author didn’t like what he saw there. The presidential news conference, a forum that Mr. Kennedy had mastered like no politician before him, was to Mr.
Mr. Boorstin was an academic and an armchair classicist who strongly advocated the nourishment and wisdom to be gleaned from high culture. But he warned against turning a blind eye to popular forms of art. What was needed, in his view, was a sense of proportion, so that the glossy surface of pop culture didn’t obscure high cultural vitality. Mass media, with its hunger to simplify, condense, bowdlerize and sensationalize, was the enemy against this kind of cultural equanimity.
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