Cross Talk: Season 3, Episode 5

paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast · Oct 30, 2019 · 13m

"On War of the Worlds - On World Audio Drama Day" From October 30, 2019. World Audio Drama day is recognized on the anniversary of the October 30, 1938 live broadcast over CBS Radio Network affiliates of the Mercury Theatre adaptation of The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells 40 years earlier. Continuing my case from Season 1, Episodes 7 and 8 from October 2018, this episode maintains the extent of any "panic" from the show was overstated by the lead researcher, and reporting in an unfair and unbalanced way by a hostile print media. Those phenomena have led some teachers and professors…