"Media Hoaxes That Make ‘The War of the Worlds’ Look" Topic

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"First of all, before we get into it, can I just say that writing this article has made me appreciate just what an incredible word "hoax" is. Linguistically, an absolute home run on all accounts. It's fun to say, it's fun to write. It's four letters, arguably the absolute most pleasing number of letters a word can have. The way it's spelled somehow makes perfect readable sense but also looks patently insane. Try barking it out loud. It feels powerful, like some sort of spell or a command that you'd use to make an incredibly large dog sit.

Anyways, what we're here to discuss is media hoaxes, a subject that I can tell you firsthand is much harder to effectively research in the year 2023. You have to sift through 20 vaguely anti-Semitic op-eds before you get even one verifiable fact. We're talking about stories reported with a straight face that turned out to be totally and completely falsified. The most famous of these is probably The War of the Worlds broadcast, even though it was never actually a news broadcast, just an adaptation of the story that sounded like one. Of course, people tuning in halfway through didn't necessarily know that, and suddenly, everyone thought aliens were afoot. A bit of confusion that had happened before, and would happen again…"

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Armand

The last few elections were media hoaxes by Green Aliens. The bastards! Leave us alone!

Looks like a great article but the Anti-ad blocker won't let me see it! OFM you are so right. Those Greens are SOBs but the Greys are our friends.

Sure the grays are our friends. That is, until "it's probing time"!

Global warming?

+1 StoneMtnMinis

Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!…

Armand