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Established media lies about new media to make it look bad - 1938 edition - robkelk - 10-30-2013
CBC Radio, As It Happens: http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/features/ ... r-editors/]Mass panic created by War of the Worlds? Only in the minds of newspaper editors (that page links to a copy of the interview, which lasts 6:39.)
Many radio shows are "call-in" - As It Happens is "call-out". (A lot of shows do that now, but AIH was, if not the first, then one of the earliest to regularly interview guests over the phone.) In this case, they call Michael Socolow, who teaches journalism and communications at the University of Maine. He says there was no mass panic after that famous broadcast from the Mercury Theater - newspapers made it up to discredit the new medium of radio.
The more things change...
(Oh, and http://archive.org/details/OrsonWellesMrBruns]Orson Welles' broadcast was 75 years ago on October 30.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Matrix Dragon - 10-30-2013
Boo. That's disappointing. Not the 'newspapers lying about the thing that could steal its business' part. It's oddly reassuring to get the reminder that's not a new concept. But dammit, that was a nifty myth.