For two years big tech censored people for telling the truth and everyone has forgotten it even happened…
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Orson Welles, who once convinced a large portion of the country that we were being invaded by aliens, would be flabbergasted at just how many people fell for a completely made up disease with a blatantly poisonous fake cure.
did that actually happen, or is that story just the media jacking themselves off as to how important and impactful they are?
Mostly no. People figured it out quickly. The media made it sound like rednecks were freaking out. If one person drunkenly drives into a fence and says aliens, the entire countryside is stupid and believed the radio show.
"The media" didn't really exist at the time, it was a spoken radio drama that simply didn't say it was fictional.
The newspapers of the era had already been badly damaged by the revelation that they'd been covering up for Roosevelt being a legless cripple(because they all knew and had a deal with him to keep it quiet), so if anything people were less inclined to believe it than they would have been otherwise of you ask me.
You're dead fucking wrong. The media existed, but it had only been damaged a bit by radio, which was why the mainstream media at the time was still the "newspaper of record" like the New York Times, Chicago Tribue, ect. As TV came out, it caused media to be homogenized in a way never previously seen.
You're also missing the point that most of the media were still left-wing oriented and protected Roosevelt. He had dissenters, but there's a reason the Republican party was nearly annihilated under his presidency.
Lets also not forget that Pulitzer himself was directly responsible for starting the Spanish American War under false pretenses, and that he was the president of the New York Democratic Party while doing it. "The Media" was absolutely a thing, and it killed people.