War of the Worlds

I have found this piece to be incredibly interesting. Although the text is rather interesting, I was quite compelled as to how the actual radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds sounded. I'm fascinated with the thought that through only the use of sound one holds the ability to manipulate a naive audience into believing that an actual national disaster is occurring without any outside proof. The really intriguing part comes with realizing that in order to re-create such an event in toda's society, one would have to manipulate almost every form of communication in order to have any sort of credibility on the terms of the fiasco. It highly interests me to think that the times have so changed that we would no longer be able to create a similar radio broadcast in today's day and age and have it as credible as it was then.