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Who panicked: the 1938 broadcast, the newspapers and the numbers

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The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
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The response may have reflected newspaper publishers' fears that radio, to which they had lost some of the advertising revenue that was scarce enough during the Great Depression, would render them obsolete.
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