Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the
United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the
New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background,
announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying
war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York
City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners
sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the
police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast
was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of
the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast
Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's
famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a wave of mass
hysteria, as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to
examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the
days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the
conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was
under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast
became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as
Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the
country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was
over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the
better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere
of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to
create shared live national experiences for the first time. We
follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and
artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative
production. And we trace the present-day popularity of fake news
back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators.
Schwartz's original research, gifted storytelling, and thoughtful
analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a
crucial but little-understood episode in American history.
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