The best stories are ones that make you feel like they are real, and the best way to do that is to present them in a believable way, through logical character development and plot. Even in "absurd" situations, like science fiction and fantasy, the audience can feel like it could happen, if not now, or on this planet, then certainly someday or in a far away place. In the past, the only ways to create this feeling was through books and plays. Radio provided a new means for realism in fiction, and Orson Welles and his broadcast team took advantage of it to great effect.
Radio at this time had helped to bring the nation together, and it was a main form of communication as well as entertainment. It was interesting how this dual nature of radio broadcast helped shape the fear of the listener, suspending the listener in a state of uncertainty. Even for those that knew the broadcast was merely a story, it was told in such a way to draw the audience in, to make them think about the possibility of such a world and such an event actually taking place.
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