The historical events and the recognition of the present

This article aims to analyze the journalisticobjectivation of “great events”. The concept of“evenementalization”, imagined by Foucault as acertain manner which Kant described an event ora set of events, against the historic “de-evenementalization”,give materiality to an action of presentrecognition that could appear in the journalistic coverageof a set of 18 periodicals of reference on thevictory of Obama to the presidency of the UnitedStates in 2008.