AI - Orson Welles
On October 30, 81 years ago, the world was witnessing one of the phenomena that has most marked the history of the media. That was the moment that set them on the path to finally bear the great responsibility of the label that already outlined them as the fourth power of society.
An innocent story that lasted barely an hour suddenly turned the whole world upside down, an extraordinary phenomenon that today would be difficult to even imagine, but that at that time caused panic among thousands of people who were terrified, convinced that the world was being invaded by an army of aliens.
Halloween night was the perfect pretext for a radio program based on Herbert George Wells' novel The War of the Worlds, from 1898. The narration of actor and future film director Orson Welles blurred the fine line that is sometimes found in the media between reality and fiction.
“Today we know that in the early years of the 20th century our world was being observed by beings more intelligent than man and, yet, just as lethal”, began the dramatization. Shortly before, a message reported that it was a work of science fiction.
