WABI (Channel 5) talked with Michael Socolow, director of the University of Maine’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center, about Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds,” noting that at that time, radio was the social media of its day. “We should apply media literacy and think about things critically. That was important in 1938
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