Broadcast turns 100: from the Hindenburg disaster to the Hottest 100, here's how radio shaped the world
- Written by Peter Hoar, Senior Lecturer, School of Communications Studies, Auckland University of Technology
The famous Hindenburg tragedy was heard around the world via recorded radio journalism.Wiki Commons, CC BY
Eighty-one years ago, a broadcast of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds supposedly caused mass hysteria in America, as listeners thought martians had invaded New Jersey.
There are varying accounts of the controversial incident, and it...