Orson Welles Conspiracy

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Orson Welles’s 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast story of the national wide huge panic broke out across the country to audience and the newspaper reports freak out. Behind this scandal it places an opening for radio particularly fascinated young imaginations, parents who grew up in the age of print, struggled to know its appeal. Most audience or people were not panicked because the CBS studio was not aware about news of the real-life panic leaked. Welles’s story has many radio listeners believed there are attacks coming to the world, Welles’s have his workers created sound effects, and doing a great job describing terrified to announcers. All these fake news or broadcast pranks mass media may cause impact on children developing minds.

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