MSM Then and Now

So I was fishing through Spotify while cooking dinner, and I found that Orson Welles’ production of War of the Worlds is available in full.

My excitement of this lead to the Mrs. and I spending more time talking about the significance of this story than actually listening to it. I’ll need to listen to it again later when I can give it the attention it deserves.

All this lead the Mrs. to ask: “I wonder what the modern media would need to do to incite a similar panic”.

I pointed out the news coverage of ANY of the modern “Breaking News” stories. We recently had an “Armed Gunman Attacking the White House”, we had “Multiple gunman at the Washington Navy Yard” and we had a “Full on Terrorist Strike at Fort Hood”.

The only difference between modern “News” and Welles’ dramatization was Welles apologized for the misunderstanding.

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