No it didn’t. You’ll be telling us next that mark almond had to have his stomach pumped after taking a line up of sailors.
www.snopes.com
The irony of using it as a statement of fact to argue that the media blow things out of proportion. The true story is it only went out live in one state, didn’t have huge listening numbers, a number of people rang the police, the police rang the radio station about a quarter of the way in to read a statement that it’s a fictional radio drama not a live news report which they promptly did. The press got hold of the story, blew it out of all proportion and the urban myth was born. Which grendull now states as a matter of fact. He probably knew a kid at school who got his head stuck in railings only to be anally raped by the first 20 people who stumbled across him.Not like Grenners to be at best in a long distance relationship with the truth
Did the 1938 Radio Broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' Cause a Nationwide Panic?
Accounts conflict about how terrified Americans really were by Orson Welles' infamous 1938 "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast.
Its interesting that in a lot of the political threads we've had on there when it comes to discussing things like Brexit, 'the left', or anything else the idea that people aren't intelligent enough to digest a nuanced political standpoint is frowned upon. We're told voters aren't stupid and if you in any way believe they are then that's why you're on the losing side.
I don't think that anyone who votes left or right is stupid, everyone is entitled to a different opinion on how things should be run. If you do, then that's on you.
I don't particularly blame the media. I listen to 5 live in the morning on the way to work and they reported a few BP stations having issues but no shortages and buy as usual. At no point did I think that was a trigger to head up to the petrol station and fill my car with fuel just in case. The last year with the bog roll and KFC stuff has shown just how fucking stupid people are. We shouldn't have to dumb down the news to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Worth pointing out that in the last decade the Tories closed all local DVLA offices, centralised everything in Swansea, cut their budget under the failed austerity policy and started selling of DVLA services to the private sector. The MSM and government are doing a good job at pointing the finger at the DVLA while selectively ignoring the reasons why there’s a backlog. The problems were there pre Covid, this hasn’t suddenly sneaked up on the government, they’ve been the architects of it.
Found another person who thinks people who don't vote his way are thick.
I agree with you mate. The media plays its part at times but its the general public being daft more than anything.
I have no idea as I rarely read his twaddle but it sounds believable.
www.bbc.com
TBF though I don't read the papers, maybe they have played it up a lot worse. In which case they should be fined heavily if they've printed lies and not just have to print an apology 2 months later tucked away somewhere on page 17.
Also tbf I'm watching ITV hamming it up a bit atm. People just need to show common sense though.
Ok cool... I know why Guardian readers vote the way they do too. Luckily barely anyone reads either of those shit rags so its not really a problem is it.
Made the same point earlier. If you look at the timeline of events it was government ministers pushing this briefing that triggered the panic.
Hardly aimlessly. Pre brexit yes we had a drivers shortage but we were managing, post brexit we no longer manage and the government’s only real fix is to partially reverse brexit and issue a few thousand visas to EU drivers who didn’t previously require them. If it had nothing to do with brexit the government would have other fixes.
