http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/20/from-mercury-to-mars-after-the-martians-the-invasion-of-daytime-in-the-war-of-the-worlds-controversy/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/20/from-mercury-to-mars-after-the-martians-the-invasion-of-daytime-in-the-war-of-the-worlds-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-426899 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:22:08 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23349#comment-426899 I agree. Thank you for the wonderful and insightful post. If only more people would enjoy the arts.

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]]> http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/20/from-mercury-to-mars-after-the-martians-the-invasion-of-daytime-in-the-war-of-the-worlds-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-426731 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:56:19 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23349#comment-426731 Great post! Interesting bit about the private chat between the FCC and the networks and the promise that the networks would increase oversight of programming, which at that time was mostly controlled by advertisers and their agencies. It would be nearly twenty more years before the networks took effective program control from advertisers–and therefore actual responsibility for programming. The irony here is that for the WOTW broadcast, Mercury Theater was a sustaining program–and so in this instance CBS couldn’t blame the sponsor!

]]> http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/01/20/from-mercury-to-mars-after-the-martians-the-invasion-of-daytime-in-the-war-of-the-worlds-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-426523 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:17:22 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=23349#comment-426523 Jennifer,
What a great post! Regardless of what controversy came about, Orson Welles was an incredibly talented man. Just by the sheer fact that 76 years later the famous “War Of The Worlds” radio broadcast is still the subject of blogs, news articles, and commentary on Cable News programs. Also, I’m glad that Government Censorship of radio never materialized, if it had, our radio and TV today would be worlds apart from what we have now. Again, thanks for the very good post, I enjoyed reading it.

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