Americans will believe anything.

[desert_bird]

@Mirch

A few minutes ago I was watching movie “The night America Trembled” I thought it is just fiction there is not truth in what movie is depicting. But out of curiosity I googled the name of the movie and this is what I found in Wikepedia:

This is an image of the middle portion of the October 31, 1938 Late City Edition of The New York Times. The headline that is illustrated here is “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact” with a subhead “Many Flee Homes to Escape ‘Gas Raid From Mars’–Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy”. The article is about the hysteria reported after Orson Welles’broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. It makes reference to “thousands” of people taken by hysteria, traffic jams and swamped phone systems from areas as sundry as New York, NY, Dayton, OH, Princeton, NJ, and even as far as San Francisco, CA, and New Orleans, LA.

They also believed about WMDs in Iraq as FOX , NYT,WP,Times were saying so.Not a new thing !