According to “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” why did newspaper reporters exaggerate the effects of the War of the Worlds broadcast? A. They hoped to impress audiences by telling a gripping but untrue story.
B. They wanted people to distrust radio as a valid, reliable source of news.
C. They forgot to check their sources before the newspaper went to print.
D. They wanted to punish Welles for making fun of reporters in his play.

B. They wanted people to distrust radio as a valid, reliable source of news.

Explanation:

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air aired in 1938. It was directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.

This episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listeners after it had convinced them that Martians were invading the Earth. However, it turned out that the panic wasn't as severe as the newspapers claimed, as a small number of people listened to the episode.

According to the article The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic, newspaper reporters exaggerated the effects of this broadcast because they wanted people to distrust radio as a valid, reliable source of news. They did this because the radio had taken off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. This is why they wanted people to stop listening to the radio.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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