The Story Behind War of the Worlds
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Jason
A lot of this doesn't make sense. You keep saying that it was a stunt yet you also say (and I've listened to it so I know you're right) that they couldn't have been more upfront with the fact that it was just a theatre production. Those two things can't exist simultaneously. I think Orson made comments about not believing everything you hear etc. as a statement after the fact just to capitalize on the attention at Garner. There is zero chance this was any form of a planned stunt to make a commentary on anything. It's also clearly not a hoax. You don't say before and during a hoax that it's a hoax.
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A lot of this doesn't make sense. You keep saying that it was a stunt yet you also say (and I've listened to it so I know you're right) that they couldn't have been more upfront with the fact that it was just a theatre production. Those two things can't exist simultaneously. I think Orson made comments about not believing everything you hear etc. as a statement after the fact just to capitalize on the attention at Garner. There is zero chance this was any form of a planned stunt to make a commentary on anything. It's also clearly not a hoax. You don't say before and during a hoax that it's a hoax.
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Amy
I bought a vinyl recording of the broadcast at Pic and Save back in the late 1980s. I also have a book with the script in it. There were disclaimers all throughout the broadcast. I also think a lot of people werent even listening. Someone was recorded at the time as saying, All the intelligent people were listening to Charlie McCarthy, meaning that ventriloquist Edgar Bergens popular radio show was airing at the same time on a different network, drawing away listeners.
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I bought a vinyl recording of the broadcast at Pic and Save back in the late 1980s. I also have a book with the script in it. There were disclaimers all throughout the broadcast. I also think a lot of people werent even listening. Someone was recorded at the time as saying, All the intelligent people were listening to Charlie McCarthy, meaning that ventriloquist Edgar Bergens popular radio show was airing at the same time on a different network, drawing away listeners.
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Kenny
Dude was quietly a wingnut while being an actual dramatic genius simultaneously. I am in awe of him even though I think that CITIZEN KANE is a B-Movie at best. He was better in his latter years than I can say, doing less and achieving more. I particularly enjoyed him in START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME. He finally got to feeling comfortable in his own skin, and that is a blessing.
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Dude was quietly a wingnut while being an actual dramatic genius simultaneously. I am in awe of him even though I think that CITIZEN KANE is a B-Movie at best. He was better in his latter years than I can say, doing less and achieving more. I particularly enjoyed him in START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME. He finally got to feeling comfortable in his own skin, and that is a blessing.
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Jennifer
We made something similar on TV for April's fool. Well they reported finding an Egyptian Tomb still sealed. A Tomb found outside of Egypt. what a find. I swallowed it hook line and sinker because I wanted to believe it lol. It was only when they decided to open it (no one does that in a few hours) I caught on lmao. They brought in experts to speculate but it was all fun.
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We made something similar on TV for April's fool. Well they reported finding an Egyptian Tomb still sealed. A Tomb found outside of Egypt. what a find. I swallowed it hook line and sinker because I wanted to believe it lol. It was only when they decided to open it (no one does that in a few hours) I caught on lmao. They brought in experts to speculate but it was all fun.
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JonGon
Wish u guys clarified why there was so much panic during the Ecuador broadcast. They weren't panicking because they thought aliens invaded, they were pissed at the radio station since radio was the primary way the public got their news. It's still chaotic but I thought I'd clarify for anyone interested in what happened during that broadcast.
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Wish u guys clarified why there was so much panic during the Ecuador broadcast. They weren't panicking because they thought aliens invaded, they were pissed at the radio station since radio was the primary way the public got their news. It's still chaotic but I thought I'd clarify for anyone interested in what happened during that broadcast.
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Evan
My grandfather and his brothers (who lived in ND) heard this broadcast. He recalled it creeped them out but they assumed it was fake - plus there were obvious signs it was a dramatic story. But he said his brother did load all the guns after and he said What. Better to be safe right?
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My grandfather and his brothers (who lived in ND) heard this broadcast. He recalled it creeped them out but they assumed it was fake - plus there were obvious signs it was a dramatic story. But he said his brother did load all the guns after and he said What. Better to be safe right?
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amada5966873
Hummmmm. Why does the story about the old newspaper calling the new radio unreliable sound so familiar? Good thing we now have mainstream media to set us straight now. That could never happen in today's world post January 6, right?
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Hummmmm. Why does the story about the old newspaper calling the new radio unreliable sound so familiar? Good thing we now have mainstream media to set us straight now. That could never happen in today's world post January 6, right?
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QuasiTraction
That, and because of the broadcast, it pushed him to make Citizen Kane, infuriating William Randolph Hearst, and how the war of the modern media, eventually proved the victor, (after we had to fight a real war.
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That, and because of the broadcast, it pushed him to make Citizen Kane, infuriating William Randolph Hearst, and how the war of the modern media, eventually proved the victor, (after we had to fight a real war.
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Gloria
My Dad and Mom, plus other relatives said they listened to the program and they announced throughout it was a show, it wan't real. Mind you my Mom and Dad were kids, lived miles apart and didn't even know each other.
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My Dad and Mom, plus other relatives said they listened to the program and they announced throughout it was a show, it wan't real. Mind you my Mom and Dad were kids, lived miles apart and didn't even know each other.
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Justin
Still, if you tuned in late to the broadcast the narration would be scary. Orson could have made far more breaks in it to remind people that it was all fake. Yeah, he didn't and kind of wanted to scare people.
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Still, if you tuned in late to the broadcast the narration would be scary. Orson could have made far more breaks in it to remind people that it was all fake. Yeah, he didn't and kind of wanted to scare people.
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Living
The newspaper industry: Millions of people were persuaded so thoroughly by a radio broadcast that they panicked! Therefore, radio is not an effective way to advertise.
No wonder print is dead.
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The newspaper industry: Millions of people were persuaded so thoroughly by a radio broadcast that they panicked! Therefore, radio is not an effective way to advertise.
No wonder print is dead.
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Cherry
I heard this somewhere else that it didn't really cause mass hysteria like some claim it did. They probably exaggerated about it but if not for that it may not have gotten the attention it did.
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I heard this somewhere else that it didn't really cause mass hysteria like some claim it did. They probably exaggerated about it but if not for that it may not have gotten the attention it did.
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Greg
An investigation by Slate. how can he say that without bursting into laughter?
Regarding the Edgar Bergen show: how remarkable is it that a ventriloquist act went over so well on radio? :)
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An investigation by Slate. how can he say that without bursting into laughter?
Regarding the Edgar Bergen show: how remarkable is it that a ventriloquist act went over so well on radio? :)
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Bob
It's fascinating that CBS employees were thrown into the breach to impede the cops. It reminds me of Apple employees doing the same to keep the bobbies from stopping the rooftop performance.
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It's fascinating that CBS employees were thrown into the breach to impede the cops. It reminds me of Apple employees doing the same to keep the bobbies from stopping the rooftop performance.
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Manners
Hmmm, a mass-media source fakes a story to cause total panic. Creates a hoax to stand the test of time. Showing how easily people believe anything, if the source is believed credible.
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Hmmm, a mass-media source fakes a story to cause total panic. Creates a hoax to stand the test of time. Showing how easily people believe anything, if the source is believed credible.
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Roman
I wanna see a weird history on RC toys like cars boats helicopters planes all of it pleaseeeeee and a weird history food on the history or breakfast cereal that would be awesome
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I wanna see a weird history on RC toys like cars boats helicopters planes all of it pleaseeeeee and a weird history food on the history or breakfast cereal that would be awesome
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schizoidboy
So in the end this tells us not to believe everything you hear, or read for that matter because the fake news came more from the newspapers than the radio.
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So in the end this tells us not to believe everything you hear, or read for that matter because the fake news came more from the newspapers than the radio.
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SlowMoPanda
Considering how many ppl got their panties in a twist over things like Y2K & that the world was ending in 2000, or 2001, or 2012, or 2020. Not too shocking
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Considering how many ppl got their panties in a twist over things like Y2K & that the world was ending in 2000, or 2001, or 2012, or 2020. Not too shocking
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CFYeomans
You say people had to be looking pretty hard to miss all the signs that the broadcast was not real, and yet this is the same country where QAnon is a thing
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You say people had to be looking pretty hard to miss all the signs that the broadcast was not real, and yet this is the same country where QAnon is a thing
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Elmo
Some 84 years later, the lesson that American people need to be taught about not believing everything they hear still holds true today. FoxNews comes to mind.
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Some 84 years later, the lesson that American people need to be taught about not believing everything they hear still holds true today. FoxNews comes to mind.
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