Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06922_Field_TCUM T487.txt

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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.