The thing about the mass-panic caused by the realistic-sounding radio show is... it didn't actually happen. The real hoax was on the part of the newspapers reporting on it. See, at the time, Radio was kind of a new-ish medium for news and entertainment, and the well-established newspapers were seeing drops in their profits. They wanted Radio gone, and were eager to discredit it, even convince people radio was "dangerous" and should be abolished. (Not that similar conflict didn't happen a couple decades later between radio and TV).
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Re: "War of the Worlds"
The thing about the mass-panic caused by the realistic-sounding radio show is... it didn't actually happen. The real hoax was on the part of the newspapers reporting on it. See, at the time, Radio was kind of a new-ish medium for news and entertainment, and the well-established newspapers were seeing drops in their profits. They wanted Radio gone, and were eager to discredit it, even convince people radio was "dangerous" and should be abolished. (Not that similar conflict didn't happen a couple decades later between radio and TV).
For a more entertaining look at that true-story than reading my plain text, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJ_DfAQtMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJ_DfAQtMY