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SYSK Choice: Why Half of Life is a Total Mystery & How The News Affects Us

Something You Should Know

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The New Technology of the Radio, Making Information Available to the Whole Nation

There's always been this ambivalent relationship between the news and consumers. There does seem to be a distrust when news sources of news materialize. Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which I'm sure many people are familiar with was on the radio here in the States in 1938. It was framed as if it was a live-breaking news broadcast of aliens invading the U.S.

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