The Power of Radio

I'm studying about Broadcast journalism and we're diving into the power of the radio!

As part of a Halloween prank in 1938, Orson Welles succeeds in creating mass panic, as apparently, thousands of New Yorkers tried to flee after listening to this radio broadcast!

Adapted from H.G. Well's The War of The Worlds, it's hard to believe that such a fictional piece of work managed to convince so many people that martians are invading earth.

"A population already primed by fear from the rise of Hitler could very easily be prompted to believe in an alien attack. Any medium that can do this must have tremendous power."
Marshall McLuhan


Wonder if it will work now? Imagine The Muttons doing this. Or ABC.


Naw. We're far too critical and cynical for that now, I reckon.