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 Welles most likely want people to consider
after listening to his broadcast?
A. That the book of The War of the Worlds is better than the radio
play
B. That the events really could happen
C. How vulnerable they were to the messages of media
D. How damaging radio is to people's morality