On Halloween eve in 1938, the power of radio was on full display when a dramatization of the science-fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" scared the daylights out of many of CBS radio's nighttime listeners. "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio Broadcast - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Oct 31, 2012
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.radiolab.org/2008... This hour of Radiolab: an examination of the power of mass media to create panic. , 10 -31 Mercury Theatre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ( 11 -5 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... ) Politics of Fear - Politics of Trust ) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -14 http://www.youtube.com/watch... , 7 -25 http://www.youtube.com/watch... , 10 -30 -13 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-r... http://www.radiolab.org/story... http://www.slate.com/article...
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Orson Welles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -21 http://friendfeed.com/citizen...
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10 -28 sort fear - negativity bias http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://friendfeed.com/citizen...
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H._G._Wells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Ray_Bradbury https://www.goodreads.com/work... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Isaac_Asimov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://io9.com/brand-n... http://www.technologyreview.com/view...
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Herd Volition [ Undercurrents [[ Seven habits of highly effective stock handlers http://www.kpcnews.com/busines... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ Martian Immune Systems? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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That urban legend about tons of people being scared was exaggerated by the print newspaper industry. They wanted to make radio look bad. One cite - http://www.slate.com/article... [just saw you already have that up there...]
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Kane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? :) [ According to writer and scholar David Rothkopf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , the U.S. is experiencing an unprecedented sense of vulnerability and fear. http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows... http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows... [[ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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