An example of this is in 1938 when The War of the Worlds was broadcasted and the reaction of panic from the American audience was wide spread, this was used as a form of propaganda. The first two thirds of the sixty minute broadcast was presented as a series of news bulletins. This seemed to suggest to many audiences that there was an actual alien invasion in progress. This was broadcasting on the Mercury Theatre on the Air which was a show that ran without commercial breaks, which seemed to add to the realism of the broadcast to be "real".
The way the programme used a "news-bulletin" format was described to be "cruelly deceptive".
It seems to be that if the government tell you/broadcast something we assume it MUST be true!?
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