Posted on 04/07/2020 7:37:58 AM PDT by cmj328
It is reported that at 8:50 P. M. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, twenty-two miles from Trenton.
The flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles and the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Elizabeth.
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Very cool - thanks!
Not to complain, but why today?
The “War of the Worlds’ was a Halloween thing.
The “War of the Worlds’ was a Halloween thing."
With the incidence of mask wearing in public increasing every day, soon every day will be Halloween.
Disease.
The 80s series which was decent had them dormant.
The Chase and Sanborn Hour featuring Charlie McCarthy ran opposite War of the Worlds and had more listeners.
“...Ironically, the thing that killed the invaders was...
Disease...”
Yup. The common cold. Which is ALSO a corona-type virus.
One more thing. While I was trying to find the name of Charlie McCarthy’s show I found out that a lot of the reports of “panic” were from newspapers trying to discredit radio as unreliable. Fake news 1930s edition.
And then, video killed the radio star.
Now, TV stations that cut in with BREAKING NEWS, are the modern equivalent of the paper boy waving around a special edition, hollering Exra, extra! Read all about it!
There was more truth in that old radio broadcast than in all of our media coverage of the pandemic.
And so goes (or so went) the trustability of our low-T and very low eddikashun modern media. (No, a journalism degree is NOT an education.)
::... I found out that a lot of the reports of “panic” were from newspapers trying to discredit radio as unreliable. Fake news 1930s edition.::
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Did not know that. Thanks.
I watching the War of the Worlds series on EPIX (free preview on Sling). It’s pretty good, but they creatures so far through episode 3 look like that Boston Robotics dog.
Who cares— it’s New Jersey.
;)
Because once this “model driven” panic is over-— there should be a reminder of the near continuous
“Whine before it’s Time!” The reminder? straight from ole Orson Welles himself, from his wine commercials’’’
“No whine before it is Time” er I mean ... wine.
But alas— the WHINING persists from the head whino— San Fran Nancy D’alessandro Pelousi-— Mob boss and whinery owner.
The next 4 trillion dollar—— “stimulus” to finish the job destroying private business and complete the govt. control of Freedom loving American citizens.
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