Hillary’s "trust problem" is what Daniel Boorstin, back in the 1960s,
called a "pseudo-event." A pseudo-event is something that acquires its
reality not because it is accurate, but because the media has reported
it, repeated it, exaggerated it, replayed it and made an indelible
mantra of it. In the process, like a piece of trashy gossip that has
made the rounds of the high school cafeteria, the pseudo-event becomes
stamped in viewers' or readers' minds as true.
~ http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-11/hillary-clinton-image-deconstruction-susan-bordo/komplettansicht
Some people didn't "trust" her but wouldn't have preferred what we got.
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