Question

Read the following transcript of the end of Orson Welles's radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds, in which a narrator remembers a time when aliens invaded Earth. During the radio broadcast, many audience members became convinced that the story of an alien invasion was truly happening.
We annihilated the world before your very ears tonight, and utterly destroyed the C.B.S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian . . . it's Hallowe'en.
Based on the transcript, what did broadcasting the story through the medium of radio allow Welles to do?

A. Apologize for working in radio because it influences people too much

B. Encourage the audience to read the original story

C. Comment on the way that people trusted the media too much

D. Announce the closing of the radio station

Answer 1

C. Comment on the way that people trusted the media too much.