War of the Worlds

BREAKING NEWS!  

BREAKING NEWS!

BREAKING NEWS!

We have just made first contact with aliens. I repeat, we have just made first contact with aliens! If you believe aliens just landed on Earth, you should land in an asylum. You would be one gullible person. When George Orwell presented War of the Worlds, some people did exactly that.

They believed him.

Why? Well, I'm sure it had something to do with how the setting was like a news station. Never before had anything like this been done so why would the people have any reason not to believe Orwell's story. Not only was it set up as breaking news, there was audio to support it. Seems pretty believable to me.

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