The issue is over semantics, as so many an internet argument are. What NYTB should have said was popularized rather than invented. War of the world's amongst the several other science fiction books Wells wrote brought about the genre in popular culture like no one else had before. Mary Shelley largely invented the novel version of science fiction with Frankenstein but throughout history the "genre" existed. In ancient times amongst a, albeit very small, number of Greek authors who played with the ideas of interplanetary warfare and things of the like texts existed. In today's views these texts would be more fantastical than scientific but with the technological development of the age these would very much be in the genre of science fiction.
Ah ah ah. You must blame the patriarchy. Don't you want to be an ally? Wouldn't it be a shame if anything were to happen to your little children at school?
Blame the patriarchy.
Unfortunately modern historians believe the hysteria was made up. As far as I can tell from my looking into it, which is admittedly surface level, much of the hysteria was played up printed publications.
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The term Yellow Journalism arises from roughly 40 years prior to the 1938 broadcast. Yellow journalism is similar to our fake news movement of today. Sensationalism is nothing new in our modern era.
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With that being said new and old media often times have a war between them in the interim between one reigning Supreme. This war was between radio and printed publications. The people of the depression era came to largely accept what was being said on the radio as truthful. Whereas printed media had been known for year to be sensationalist. Printed outlets attempted a character assassination on radio because of how the story was framed. The story was framed as a news bulletin interspiced with interviews and speeches from, an impersonator, the president.
The attempt was to discredit radio as a reliable source so that people would return to printed media. As history went along radio surpassed printed media as televised surpassed radio and as internet will surpass televised. The dying media tries its best to discredit the new form of media.
Honestly, the book is fucking boring. Like, Scarlett Letter boring. I get the points made, which are... hehe frankly... ahead of their time... but the book itself is just dumb, especially for the era. Adam could have gone to NorCal instead of the Arctic and just chilled instead of going to a place ever major world power was trying to search a way through. Fucking dumbass.
Blame the patriarchy.
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The term Yellow Journalism arises from roughly 40 years prior to the 1938 broadcast. Yellow journalism is similar to our fake news movement of today. Sensationalism is nothing new in our modern era.
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With that being said new and old media often times have a war between them in the interim between one reigning Supreme. This war was between radio and printed publications. The people of the depression era came to largely accept what was being said on the radio as truthful. Whereas printed media had been known for year to be sensationalist. Printed outlets attempted a character assassination on radio because of how the story was framed. The story was framed as a news bulletin interspiced with interviews and speeches from, an impersonator, the president.