Given the world's propensity for believing that all Americans are gun toting maniacs it is amazing we survived December 31st, 1999. :o)
>>>Totally unlike the thousands of Americans who panicked at Awful >Wells's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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>>interesting. did not know that.
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>It would be interesting if something similar was tried today. Imagine if a drama was dropped into TV and radio and internet without the usual adverts etc and wrapped up as "news". I think people would still fall for it and with the way we consume news now the numbers taken in would be greater and the results catastrophic. Maybe "weapons of mass destruction" was that Welles guy or his modern equivalent all along.
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