... is happening in the world you will assume that what you see, hear or read is going to be reliable. Back in 1938 CBS, in the U.S. did a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds-, in the slot where they would normally have a play. Many listeners who turned in after the broadcast had begun were panicked and distressed. It appears that ... 1m out of the 6m listeners were severely frightened', they believed that the U.S. was to be invaded by Martians. Although this was merely a piece of fiction read by the actor, Orson Welles, it was delivered in the format of an actual news program...

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