Tuesday, September 5, 2017

We've Had The 'Fake News' Debate Before - In The Early Days Of Radio

Adrian Chen looks back at Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, the wildly exaggerated newspaper reports of public panic over it, and the anxieties behind the entire uproar, noting the parallels with today's concerns over false reports spread via the internet.



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