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Journalism Screening:Media Pranks: From Welles to the Yes Men
October 29, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
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Journalism Screening
Title: Media Pranks: From Welles to the Yes Men
Details: October 30th 1938 saw one of the most celebrated media hoaxes of all time, when a young radio director, Orson Welles, broadcast an adaptation of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds. We will listen to this iconic radio broadcast, and examine it in relation to contemporary media hoaxes – specifically the work of New York-based culture-jamming activists, The Yes Men.
Links:
https://archive.org/details/OrsonWellesMrBruns
Dr. Andrew ÌÒ Baoill