The War of the Worlds Panic: What Really Happened in 1938
Did Orson Welles’s 1938 Martian invasion broadcast send America into mass panic? What happened that night, and why historians say the panic was overblown.
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Media & Broadcasting
Controversies born on the airwaves, in print and online.
Milli Vanilli: The Lip-Sync Scandal
How pop duo Milli Vanilli became one of the biggest acts of 1989 without singing on their records, how the truth came out and why their Grammy was withdrawn.
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
In 1835, a New York paper claimed a famous astronomer had seen winged people on the Moon. The story of the Great Moon Hoax and why readers fell for it.