Media Myth Alert reported in 2013 on the appearance of numerous and prominent media-driven myths and errors. Here are the five top writeups posted at the blog during 2013, followed by a roster of other mythbusting posts of note.
But as I discussed in my 2010 mythbusting book, Getting It Wrong, the radio dramatization produced no such effects. Panic and hysteria were wildly overstated by newspapers of the time.
PBS took up The War of the Worlds program in a documentary that aired October 29, on the eve of the radio showâ??s 75th anniversary. The PBS program not only made The War of the Worlds seem tedious, it represented a missed opportunity to revisit the famous but much-misunderstood program in fresh and searching ways.
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