My recollection is that War of the Worlds was an exercise in understanding
the dynamics involved in the psychology of rumour.Remember the class
experiment where if one tells a story to student in the first row in the
classroom and asked to pass the story down to the adjacent student.;then by
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On 1 Nov 2011 at 3:56, Allen Esterson wrote:
> An interview with Prof W Joseph Campbell on the BBC Radio 4 Today
> programme this morning led me to this:
>
> The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903
>
Well, I love mythbusting as much as the
An interview with Prof W Joseph Campbell on the BBC Radio 4 Today
programme this morning led me to this:
The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903
and then to this:
Why ‘War of the Worlds’ show didn’t panic America
W. Joseph Campbell
http://me
