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That was Orson Welles, and his Mercury Theatre company was about to perform H. G. Wells's novel \"The War of the Worlds\" for the CBS radio network. But they didn't read it like an ordinary story. Instead, they disguised it as a series of breaking news bulletins, interrupting fake dance music to announce that strange explosions had been seen on Mars. If you had tuned in late, you might not have realized you were listening to a play at all.  \nThat trick of \"tuning in late\" is exactly what turned a simple play into a legend. The broadcast used the sound of real radio journalism: an announcer describing a landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, breathless reporters, official-sounding experts, and moments of dead silence. Listeners who missed the opening credits heard what sounded like genuine reports of Martians attacking, complete with a supposed government statement. Welles later said the goal was to make the invasion feel immediate and terrifyingly ordinary. The performance was clever precisely because it borrowed the voice people trusted most in 1938.  \nThat trusted voice mattered because radio, in 1938, was the beating heart of the American home. Most families gathered around a wooden set in the evening the way people now stare at phones, and radio was where they learned about a nervous world sliding toward war in Europe. When an urgent bulletin broke in, it carried real weight, because that was how genuine emergencies were announced. So when historians describe listeners believing the broadcast, they are pointing to a moment when the medium itself made the fiction convincing. The very realism that made the show brilliant is what made it dangerous.  \nThe morning after, newspapers seized on that danger with enormous headlines. Papers across the country reported that terrified Americans had jammed phone lines, fled their homes, and prayed in the streets, and some claimed a nationwide panic had gripped millions. These stories made the broadcast instantly famous and helped launch Welles's career in Hollywood. But here is where you should slow down and ask a sharp question: how did reporters know how many people panicked? Mostly, they didn't; they collected a handful of dramatic anecdotes and stretched them into a national emergency.  \nThat gap between anecdote and evidence is exactly what later researchers set out to close. Media historians, digging into the actual audience numbers, argue that relatively few people were even listening, because a far more popular show aired on a rival network at the same time. Some scholars suggest newspapers had a motive to exaggerate, since radio was stealing their advertisers and a story about reckless radio made the newer medium look irresponsible. This is a classic problem in evaluating claims: a vivid story spreads faster than a careful count. When you weigh the two accounts, ask which one rests on measured data and which rests on repeated retellings.  \nWeighing those two accounts is what keeps this eighty-year-old broadcast alive in classrooms today. The episode has become a favorite example of how a rumor can harden into \"fact\" simply by being printed  \noften enough. It reminds you that a frightening claim deserves the same question whether it arrives by radio, newspaper, or a post on your phone: what is the evidence? Welles himself seemed almost delighted by the uproar, and it made him one of the most talked-about people in America overnight. The strangest twist of all may be this: the story of the panic turned out to be a bit like the broadcast itself, a gripping tale that far more people believed than the facts could support.  \nThe War of the Worlds Broadcast  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the passage, how did the Mercury Theatre disguise its performance of","cbCaijnEQ2OITsSc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijnEQ2OITsSc","pdf",87149,"English","# Quiz Questions\n## 1) How did the Mercury Theatre disguise its performance?\n## 2) Why does the broadcast remain useful in classrooms today?\n## 3) Why does the broadcast borrow “the voice people trusted most in 1938”?\n## 4) How does the author respond to newspaper reports of panic?\n## 5) What motive might newspapers have had for exaggerating panic?","[{\"question\":\"How did the Mercury Theatre disguise its performance of the novel?\",\"answer\":\"It presented the story as a series of breaking news bulletins that interrupted dance music.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the broadcast remain useful in classrooms today?\",\"answer\":\"It demonstrates how a rumor can harden into “fact” simply by being printed often enough.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the passage suggest about evidence for the claimed nationwide panic?\",\"answer\":\"The newspapers mainly relied on dramatic anecdotes, and researchers argue measured data may show far fewer listeners than reported.\"}]","The War of the Worlds Broadcast - Quiz Questions | PDF",1790807248,15]