We aren’t the first generation to accept news from new media uncritically. The famous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast ...

Orson Welles' trickery during his 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast — and newspapers' response to it — is an early lesson in ...

The death of 19-year-old Homewood resident Lester Wolf in 1926 is going national as an episode of the podcast Our American Stories.

A broadcast by young auteur Orson Welles was reported to have triggered hysteria among the millions of listeners who believed ...

Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...