went into  the press was news. The rest was not news. “He 
made the news” is a strangely ambiguous phrase, since to be in 
the newspaper is both to be news and to make news. Thus 
“making the news,” like “making good,” implies a world of 
actions and fictions alike. But the press is a daily action and 
fiction or thing made, and it is made out of just about 
everything in the community. By the mosaic means, it is made 
into a communal image or cross-section.

     When a conventional critic like Daniel Boorstin complains 
that modern ghost-writing, teletype, and wire services create 
an insubstantial world of “pseudoevents,” he declares, in effect, 
that he has never examined the nature of any medium prior to 
those of the electric age. For the pseudo or fictitious character 
has always permeated the media, not just those of recent 
origin.