We are eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the Age- space shuttle, debt ceiling, medical cures

I quote Daniel Boorstin, The Image, 1962, page 37.  Boorstin discussed pseudo-events (contrived events) television and the Graphics Revolution (the multiplication of images and recording techniques, which began in the 19th century). The 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debates were pseudo-events, neither true nor false, but misleading, he says.

We are drowning in manufactured and misleading news, much more so than in 1962. The space shuttle, the debt ceiling and our frantic hyped-up drive for cures are  examples.