9 minutes agoThe first false news, when it was announced to US for the arrival of the Martians
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Run, save your head, something's coming! 8 decades ago, world-renowned actor and director Orson Welles managed to insist on what is considered the biggest famous fraud of the last century. October 30th of 1938, Wells and his team cut off the usual transmission, radio transmission “Culbia Broadcasting System” [...]
October 30th of 1938, Wells and his team cut off the usual transmission, radio transmission “Culbia Broadcasting System” for a radio-dramatization of H.G. novel. Wells: “War of worlds”
Those who were listening, however, came to understand differently: Wells reportedly the Martians had targeted Earth and the situation made more reliable reports of how they were talking about a meteor falling on a farm in New Jersey, or that Mars residents had rushed into New York!
Insured that the news was true after “had heard on radio“, thousands of people called in police stations or newspaper editors to ask how to leave the city or how to protect themselves from “gas attacks“.
Others abandoned homes while a large number of adults needed medical treatment because they were in “the state of shock“.
Eight decades later, a folk hysteria of those sizes continues to remain undaunted. It is estimated that about 20% of those who heard the radio dramatization, which means nearly 1 million people, thought it was real! /tch
