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?
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a. announce the closing of the radio station
b. apologize for working in radio because it influences people too
much
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c. encourage the audience to read the original story
d. comment on the way that people trusted the media too much