• Andrew Crissell wrote a book called Understanding Radio
• ‘Determine the distinctive characteristics of the radio medium’
• ‘Blind Medium’

Aliens metaphor – resemble something else

• Hyper inflation
• wall street crash
• Mosalini, Stalin
• Rise of Hitler + Brown Shirts etc.

I’ve always said you cant understand the world without the media nor the media without the world – Natalie Fenton quoted in Fake News vs Media Studies

Standly Cohen Folk, Devil + Moral Panics (blame media, everything that goes wrong blame the media – ‘moral panic’)

J.,McDonald hard times are a breeding ground for misinformation’

Fake News is age old – Example War of the Worlds (propaganda)

War of The Worlds

Early example of a hybrid radio form, adapting the H.G Welles story using news and documentary conventions. (genre – Steve Neale, can be a hybrid)

Historically significance as an early, documented, example of the mass media apparently having a direct effect on an audience’s behavior. 

Orson Well’s narrated, directed and adapted H.G.Well’s novel

Anti War film

Broadcasted by CBS – Columbia Broadcasting Company (October 30th – Halloween Special 1938)

Radio – normal radio, turns into reported alien attach – fiction

Suspending disbelief – people were panicking (is that true?)

Radio exaggerated/made up audiences reaction?

To sell radios – get people talking – Fake News, Adverting

Quotes

• Reinforced his hypothesis of the dangerous power of the media
• Powerful media industries that change the way we think