Also to be fair, radio news broadcasters had a much more theatrical style in those days. However, audiences didn't recognize that Welles was playing MANY roles as were his fellow actors!
LonnaNJ, Retleo's reference to "sheeple" is fully evident in the public's reaction to Orson Welles' broadcast of a drama which contained a dramatized news segment. Audiences tuning in mid-program panicked. Welles's imaginative art work put him on the map...
From Youtube - The entire broadcast:
"Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast.
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage.
The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles' fame."
This hype is similar to a tale my Grandfather told me. It was a story about a radio host (Orson Wells I think) whom was broadcasting that the Martians are coming. From what I remember, a listener actually killed himself.
"Frightened children and suicidal teenagers" huh? Don't forget to add idiots, losers, cult members, potheads, conspiracy theorists and a plethora of other Sheeple who are easily misled and who never fact check the validity of what they read, see and hear. Time to thin the herd once again!
LonnaNJ
6 months ago
5074 Comments
Groversmille NJ??? lol.
LonnaNJ
6 months ago
5074 Comments
Yup that's it.
MarlyB
6 months ago
4228 Comments
Also to be fair, radio news broadcasters had a much more theatrical style in those days. However, audiences didn't recognize that Welles was playing MANY roles as were his fellow actors!
MarlyB
6 months ago
4228 Comments
LonnaNJ, Retleo's reference to "sheeple" is fully evident in the public's reaction to Orson Welles' broadcast of a drama which contained a dramatized news segment. Audiences tuning in mid-program panicked. Welles's imaginative art work put him on the map...
From Youtube - The entire broadcast:
"Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast.
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage.
The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles' fame."
LonnaNJ
6 months ago
5074 Comments
Good Lord.
This hype is similar to a tale my Grandfather told me. It was a story about a radio host (Orson Wells I think) whom was broadcasting that the Martians are coming. From what I remember, a listener actually killed himself.
Retleo
6 months ago
5522 Comments
"Frightened children and suicidal teenagers" huh? Don't forget to add idiots, losers, cult members, potheads, conspiracy theorists and a plethora of other Sheeple who are easily misled and who never fact check the validity of what they read, see and hear. Time to thin the herd once again!
MarlyB
6 months ago
4228 Comments
What NASA doesn't want you to know is...
NIBIRU IS EDIBLE!!! :O)
mz66
6 months ago
3462 Comments
uncledennis1
6 months ago
22262 Comments
Everyone is invited to my crib for Butter Brickle and cigars before the big day.
MarlyB
6 months ago
4228 Comments
OH NOOOO!!! I JUST REALIZED THESE GUYS ARE SANTA CLAUS!!!
MaxVirtus
6 months ago
9358 Comments
The doomsayer and the debunker ARE the same guy!...Clearly this proves the multiverse exists and there is an external physical reality. (LOL)
ssu459
6 months ago
152664 Comments
Supposed to be at 1111 in the A.M. I'm usually taking a shower at about that time.Guess whoever survives will find my nude body.
SGT405
6 months ago
220 Comments
And here I just bought a new lawn chair and a sixpack of mikes hard lemonade to watch the final light show.
DonnaLynn
6 months ago
9342 Comments
So according to the title the apocalypse stories pose threat to frightened children and suicidal teens... what about the adults? LOL
ssu459
6 months ago
152664 Comments
Close to it MarlyB.If it is,he'll be correct one way or the other.