When Earthlings Panic
August 17, 2015 · book reviews, Magazine, Books and Arts
Before the fake news of the Onion, before fake TV newscasters such as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, there was Orson Welles and his 1938 dramatization of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. No radio program has ever been examined as thoroughly, in books, film, and television. Coverage leans…