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The Next To Last Refuge Of The Incompetent

The idea that there was mass panicking following Well's WotW broadcast is a myth

Posted by salvorhardin in September 11
Sat Dec 03rd 2011, 07:51 PM

There was some panicking, but most people understood that it was a radio play. Furthermore, most of the panicking that did occur wasn't because of people who heard the broadcast, but because of people who heard from panic stricken friends and neighbors that an otherworldly attack was underway.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1547090... and W. Joseph Campbell's Getting It Wrong for more. Campbell also has an excellent discussion of the myth of the 38 idle witnesses to the Kitty Genovese murder in Getting It Wrong.

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