Are radio and televi­sion really so powerful, or is just that the common man (or woman) is extremely gullible? I was reading a couple of articles about Orson Welles’ radio adapta­tion of The War Of The Worlds — during whose broad­cast a large number of people had actually believed that aliens had landed on our planet — and I realised that even today, the same phenom­enon is silently taking place, of course, without all the panic.

For instance, newspa­pers, news broad­casts and televi­sion programs that are biased towards a polit­ical party or a commu­nity can confi­dently project their opinions as facts, and they can get away with it. There are very few who have the time or the incli­na­tion to protest, and feeble protests are seldom heard. The rest of the populace is ready to believe what it sees or hears, allowing itself to be controlled by propaganda.

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