http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm
On October 30, 1938 (just 1 day before halloween) reknowned radio personality Orson Welles broadcast his adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel War of the Worlds.

In his version, he adapted the novel as a series of news broadcasts to enhance the dramatic effects of the novel. However the public who had been listening to the story, unaware that it was a story, truely believe that it was REAL news broadcasts of an alien invasion from Mars causing panic and unrest within the United States...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
Just several days ago in the UK, a man sent a photograph of a great white shark to The Sun newspaper claiming he had taken the photograph off the coast of UK shores.

The Sun first published the photograph, later followed by other newspapers, which caused many people to fear going to the beach.

However later, the man admitted that he had actually taken the photograph off the coast of South Africa during his vacation and he had sent the photograph as a joke, he didn't believe that anyone would be dumb enough to think that the seas around the UK had great whites.


In 1997, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro starred in a movie called Wag the Dog, about a group of presidential supporters who faked a war and convinced the american population to believe that their nation was at war with another nation, to take the puplic's mind of a recent sex scandle involving the president.


What's your opinion on the roles that Media played during these events?