War of the Worlds

During class we listened to part of this 1938 radio broadcast. What were your reactions to this broadcast?

I think that this broadcast and the effect it made on the American society just shows how much we are depended on media and how much we believe in it. Basically I understood that it has a great control over the society and it is very easy to create mass hysteria by it.

"More to the point, we live in a time in which the ability to create deceptive simulations, especially for television, has become essential to the exercise of power. And the inability to see through these deceptions has become a form of powerlessness. Those who let themselves be taken in by the multiple deceptions of politics, news, advertising and public relations, are doomed, like the more gullible members of the radio audience in 1938, to play a role in other people's dramas, while mistakenly believing that they are reacting to something genuine.
"What do you think about this statement?

This statement tells us not to trust completely to the any type of information we get thru media. There is always a border between a reality and fiction, and we have to know how to determine between this to.