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I first came up with the concept of media spectacle to describe the key phenomenon of US media and politics in the mid-1990s. This was the era of the O.J. Simpson murder case and trial, the Clinton sex scandals, and the rise of cable news networks like Fox, CNN, and media MSNBC and the 24/7 news cycle that has dominated US politics and media since then.
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Kellner, D. (2016). Donald Trump and the Politics of the Spectacle. In: American Nightmare. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 117. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-788-7_2
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