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Public Panic and the Media

Posted on January 5, 2015 at 7:49 pm by Sharon Gerald

In 1938, the famous radio broadcast of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds aired to what? Widespread panic from a duped public? That’s the popular version of the story, but this article from Slate says it isn’t true. Newspapers of … Continue reading →

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