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Journalistic Practices in Media Events Before Broadcasting : The Public Funeral of King Oscar II in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden

According to Dayan and Katz, media events require live transmission, firmly dating their birth to the age of television. However, the application of such a media-centric criterion runs the risk of projecting an a-historical perspective to the phenomenon as such. By contrast, using the example of the public funeral of the Swedish King Oscar II in 1907, the purpose of this article is to scrutinize a