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'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231027-behind-the-broadcast-orson-welles-on-the-mass-hysteria-of-the-war-of-the-worlds

This helped solidify the impression that Welles's show had (created, projected, made, hatched) hysteria.

There were threats of lawsuits, and (calls, shouts, claims, urges) for censorship and regulation of radio content.

CBS hastily called a press conference, where Welles repeatedly (refused, denied, declined, waived, barred) that he had intended to deceive anyone.

Ultimately the Federal Communications Commission (explored, searched, inquired, delved, investigated) the incident and found no law had been broken, but networks did have to agree that they would be more cautious with future programming.

The scandal only (served, delivered, provided, supplied, performed) to boost Welles's reputation as a creative genius with a mastery of storytelling.

It would go on to (prompt, cast, pitch, provoke, propel) him to Hollywood, where he would direct and star in 1941's Citizen Kane, often cited as the greatest film of all time.

Welles recounted how, a few years later, news (broke, burst, bust, snapped) that Japan had launched a surprise attack on the US base in Pearl Harbor during a patriotic performance he was giving on radio.

"I was in the midst of some hymn of praise to the American cornfields or something of the kind," he recounts, "when suddenly, a gentleman (darted, fluttered, boomed, threw) into the radio studio, held up his hand, and said, 'We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an announcement: Pearl Harbor has just been attacked.'

And of course this very serious and terrible news was never (believed, considered, deemed, reckoned).
Not for hours, by anybody in America, because they all said, 'Well there he goes again, really, rather bad taste, it was funny once, but not a second time'."

In the years since, there has been much debate about whether the level of panic the broadcast actually caused has been (overstated, far-fetched, overkilled, overreacted), or indeed how many people actually heard the broadcast, as opposed to reading the newspaper reports about it.

But regardless, it remains a (monument, memorial, landmark, beacon) moment in broadcast history, and a testament to the power of storytelling to capture the imagination of an audience.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231027-behind-the-broadcast-orson-welles-on-the-mass-hysteria-of-the-war-of-the-worlds

How an objective measure of pain could counter bias in medicine

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230414-the-search-for-an-objective-measure-of-pain

The science of pain is complex and its assessment subjective, leading to bias and health inequality. Now, researchers are searching for a (loyal, reliable, steadfast, righteous) , objective measure of pain.


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