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It was the most famous invasion that never happened. But Orson Welles\u2019 1938 \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d broadcast sure sounded convincing as it used news bulletins and eyewitness accounts to describe an existential Martian attack. The public panicked. Or did it? New research says that claims of mass hysteria were overblown.\nOn the 75th anniversary of the broadcast: How the media manufactured descriptions of a fearful public and why \u2013 with our continued fondness for conspiracies \u2013 we could be hoodwinked again.\nPlus, journalism ethics in the age of social media. Can we tweet \u201cMars is attacking!\u201d with impunity?\nAnd why we\u2019re obsessed with the Red Planet.\nGuests:\n\n\nMichael Socolow \u2013 Associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine\n\n\nJesse Walker \u2013 Senior editor at Reason Magazineand author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory\n\n\n\nKaty Culver \u2013 Assistant professor at the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison\n\n\nKevin Schindler \u2013 Outreach manager at the Lowell Observatory\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices