An event staged primarily to attract publicity:a staged media event...
The Bushites latest paint job was revealed at a media event staged in an Ohio factory.
Instead, he staged a goofy media event wherein he was seen yelling incomprehensibly at confused forestry workers and waving around a chunk of 2 by 4 at them.
And then to reinforce this point, the Bush administration staged a media event that it hoped would get Americans back into the skies.