The Telegraph cited an article by Michael Socolow, an associate professor in the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Maine, in a report about the overblown reports of panic following Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds.” In 2013, Socolow and Jeff Pooley, an associate professor of media and communication read more Socolow Cited in Telegraph Article on ‘War of the Worlds’ Panic Myth