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originally posted by: blueyedevilwoman
What would you think Psychological Warfare would involve?
Id trust him with my children.You wouldnt?
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
I am certain that we are not the only critters in the cosmos. On that, Ancient Aliens is right.
Any more detail than that, I am unable.
originally posted by: Ridhya
originally posted by: blueyedevilwoman
What would you think Psychological Warfare would involve?
Mind control, simply put.
Id trust him with my children.You wouldnt?
I'd sooner let John Podesta babysit
originally posted by: weirdguy
Podesta probably probes the aliens....
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
I am certain that we are not the only critters in the cosmos. On that, Ancient Aliens is right.
Any more detail than that, I am unable.
I'm as certain as I can be without hard proof that we are not the only intelligent critters in the universe.
However, I'm far less convinced that any of those other intelligent critters are visiting Earth or have ever visited Earth.
Upon what do you base this assertion?
Aliens...... is still something the majority of people don't want to contemplate as being true.
then again War of the Worlds" hoax gave them a glimpse!
No. Not really. The "History Channel" isn't really that big on actual history ( you know, that Ancient Aliens crap).
Panic broke out across the country.
That makes no sense. Unless, of course, it was Martians invading with heat rays.
and the whole point of soft disclosure would be to avoid all the headcases setting their bombs off att he same time..
originally posted by: Davg80
a reply to: Phage
just by the numbers that subscribe to religions and by the fact that nobody i know thinks or talks about aliens.
and the hoax did create a mass panic!!
www.history.com...
But the thing is, no such nation-wide panic actually occurred. While there were certainly many exceptions, documented evidence indicates most who listened did know it was a dramatization and were completely aware that New Jersey was not being destroyed by visitors from space. Further, as you’ll soon see, the broadcast didn’t have very good ratings when it first aired; so even if everyone who listened had thought it was real, it wouldn’t have resulted in the level of mass hysteria commonly spoken of since....
...The newspaper industry had quite a bone to pick with the new medium of radio. As W. Joseph Campbell of American University wrote in the BBC News magazine in 2011 (for the 73rd anniversary of the broadcast), “…the so-called ‘panic broadcast’ brought newspapers an exceptional opportunity to censure radio, a still-new medium that was becoming a serious competitor in providing news and advertising.”
That same New York Times editorial with the inflammatory headline had this to say about its new competitor, “Radio is new but it has adult responsibilities. It has not mastered itself or the material it uses.”
Orson Welles scared very few people with his 1938 radio version of H.G. Wells’s novel about an alien invasion. The lingering question is, why do we want to believe he did? ...
...It’s curious that Schwartz works so hard to establish the broadcast’s believability since he knows that very few listeners were taken in by War of the Worlds. For one thing, the audience was small: Mercury Theatre—up against NBC’s popular Chase & Sanborn Hour featuring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy—was heard by less than 4 percent of the audience. Of those who did tune in, the vast majority were aware that they were listening to a radio drama.
Stories of panic—including unsubstantiated rumors of heart attacks and suicides—were exaggerated by newspaper coverage in the days after the broadcast. (Historians have argued that the papers went after Welles to cast doubt on the integrity of their new rival, radio; Schwartz questions that theory, noting that newspaper circulations rose with radio’s popularity, suggesting that “if anything, broadcast journalism increased the American appetite for the printed variety.”) The panic narrative was later cemented by a 1940 academic analysis, Hadley Cantril’s The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic, which estimated that at least 1 million listeners were convinced that America was under attack. Schwartz determines that Cantril, himself taken in by sensationalized media reports, “deliberately oversampled people frightened by the broadcast” and “ignored survey data from listeners who knew it was fiction.”
From these initial newspaper items on Oct. 31, 1938, the apocryphal apocalypse only grew in the retelling. A curious (but predictable) phenomenon occurred: As the show receded in time and became more infamous, more and more people claimed to have heard it. As weeks, months, and years passed, the audience’s size swelled to such an extent that you might actually believe most of America was tuned to CBS that night. But that was hardly the case.
Far fewer people heard the broadcast—and fewer still panicked—than most people believe today. How do we know? The night the program aired, the C.E. Hooper ratings service telephoned 5,000 households for its national ratings survey. “To what program are you listening?” the service asked respondents. Only 2 percent answered a radio “play” or “the Orson Welles program,” or something similar indicating CBS. None said a “news broadcast,” according to a summary published in Broadcasting. In other words, 98 percent of those surveyed were listening to something else, or nothing at all, on Oct. 30, 1938. This miniscule rating is not surprising. Welles’ program was scheduled against one of the most popular national programs at the time—ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s Chase and Sanborn Hour, a comedy-variety show.