Almost everyone knows about Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast. Although it is unclear just how much chaos it caused (some say newspapers wanted to trash the relatively new radio as an unreliable medium), no one can deny the power of broadcasting to reach a wide audience in a short span of time. And like any other power, it can be used—and abused—to great effect. 10 BBC Radio PanicJanuary 16, 1926 In an incident that preceded Orson Welles’s broadcast by 12 years, Catholic priest and BBC commentator Father Ronald Knox shocked Britain by saying that mobs of angry unemployed workers had revolted … Continue reading Giant Sea Monster Attacks Tokyo