So how did you come to your conclusion?
That's where I got my opinion.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346...
> "Far fewer people heard the broadcast — and fewer still panicked — than most people believe today. How do we know? The night the program aired, the C.E. Hooper ratings service telephoned 5,000 households for its national ratings survey. 'To what program are you listening?' the service asked respondents. Only 2 percent answered a radio 'play' or 'the Orson Welles program,' or something similar indicating CBS. None said a 'news broadcast,' according to a summary published in Broadcasting. In other words, 98 percent of those surveyed were listening to something else, or nothing at all, on Oct. 30, 1938. This miniscule rating is not surprising. Welles' program was scheduled against one of the most popular national programs at the time — ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's Chase and Sanborn Hour, a comedy-variety show."
I'm guessing the ventriloquist's ventriloquism wasn't the star of that show since, ventriloquist, on Radio, Not. So. Funny.
And by the way, why are you defending the idea of scaring the fuck out of the population with made-up lies on mass media?
It was mostly a panic in the newspapers. There wasn't actually any real mass panic over the broadcast. It mostly just isolated people calling police stations to confirm whether it was real, and most of those were people who only heard a very small part and thought it might be a military invasion not space aliens.
