Multiple Choice
In 1938, actor Orson Welles hosted a radio broadcast dramatizing H. G. Wells's science fiction classic The War of the Worlds. A CBS radio dance-music program was interrupted suddenly by a news bulletin informing the audience that Martians had landed in New Jersey and were in the process of conquering Earth. The ensuing reaction was an example of ____________.
A) mass hysteria
B) propaganda
C) public opinion
D) mass mob behavior
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
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