“The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events.”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 31.

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