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Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/#Fxjh4U6621RzVsSM.99
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Orson Welles was a famous American actor, director, writer, producer who worked in theatre, radio and films.
H.G. Wells was a pioneering science fiction novelist.
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On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awoke to find himself the most talked about man in America. The night before, Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air had performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, converting the 40-year-old novel into fake news bulletins describing a Martian invasion of New Jersey. Some listeners mistook those bulletins for the real thing, and their anxious phone calls to police, newspaper offices, and radio stations convinced many journalists that the show had caused nationwide hysteria. By the next morning, the 23-year-old Welles’s face and name were on the front pages of newspapers coast-to-coast, along with headlines about the mass panic his CBS broadcast had allegedly inspired.
Welles barely had time to glance at the papers, leaving him with only a horribly vague sense of what he had done to the country. He’d heard reports of mass stampedes, of suicides, and of angered listeners threatening to shoot him on sight. “If I’d planned to wreck my career,” he told several people at the time, “I couldn’t have gone about it better.” With his livelihood (and possibly even his freedom) on the line, Welles went before dozens of reporters, photographers, and newsreel cameramen at a hastily arranged press conference in the CBS building. Each journalist asked him some variation of the same basic question: Had he intended, or did he at all anticipate, that War of the Worlds would throw its audience into panic?
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/#Fxjh4U6621RzVsSM.99
Additional Information:
Orson Welles was a famous American actor, director, writer, producer who worked in theatre, radio and films.
H.G. Wells was a pioneering science fiction novelist.
Do you think something like this can happen today? Why? Or Why not? Post your responses as comments before class on 13.7.18.
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This wont be happening today, coz most ppl r connected to internet.
ReplyDeletePlease introduce yourself before making your comment. I understand that people are always connected. But if you notice these days it is easier to spread rumours and fake news. In fact the phrase "fake news" itself evolved in the past couple of years. But read my post carefully. It was not deliberate "fake news" but a radio play / drama which caused widespread panic.
DeleteThis is Riyaz. But now most ppl are aware of radio plays now and also what they do like plays, callers talks, pranks.. they can differentiate it mostly if someone mistakes them, the one who knows about that play can explain them.
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ReplyDeletePlease introduce yourself. I don't understand the word "posters". The pic I posted was not a poster. It was a collage of newspaper headlines. Please read the post fully. The rumour was spread not by or because of a poster but because of a radio play.
DeleteI think something like this won't happen today because when people get these kind of news, the first thing they do is cross-check the news in the internet.
ReplyDeleteDear Aswin. You are right. But again I would like to call your attention to the phenomenon of fake news. These days with internet and social media, it has become all the more easier to spread rumours. And it is very difficult to cross check whether the news is genuine or false. (I wonder if you remember, there were fake news / rumours of the deaths of celebrities (Jackie Chan), there were plenty of rumours surrounding the former CM's death. )
DeleteNo it won't... Nowadays people won't believe in rumours... Once they get the news they've go for confirming it. And also only a little people will hear radios these days ��
ReplyDeleteDear Aswin. Please read my replies to the earlier comments. I disagree on that point. But I agree with your point about radio being out of fashion. But radio is only a medium. Today in place of radio we have many other media. So these other media can be used to spread rumours. This is my argument.
DeleteI'm yamini from food tech . My view on this question would be this kind of rumours could spread very fastly with today's accessibility to internet service. There would be a big commotion or at least a viral argument before people could really understand what was actually going on. Rumours can reach people faster than the original news. People who interprets on the news they hear are less than the one's who spread the news as soon as they came to know about it .
ReplyDeleteDear Yamini. It is true that internet accessibility has actually made the spreading of rumours much easier. In fact rumours spread faster than true news is also very true. There has a systematic study of this conducted by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 - 17. Check out this info. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/technology/twitter-fake-news-research.html
DeleteI'm Faizal. Yes; Though technology had developed, there are a lot of chances for spreading rumors. Almost everybody is connected to internet. If people find something interesting or different they spread (or) share the news, nomatter is it True or Fake. So, people from other end of the world believe the news thinking it is true. Today rumors are everywhere. It has became a trend nowadays.
ReplyDeleteDear Faizal. I agree with you. Why do you think that people spread such news? Why has it become a trend these days? Is it because common people, unlike journalists, do not feel burdened by the responsibility of checking the authenticity of the news they receive?
DeleteThis is sowmya. Yes, it can be happen nowadays. Once they hear or see something, immediately they will spread the news to their friends or relatives before confirming it. Some people may believe in it and some may not.
ReplyDeleteDear Sowmya. Please read my questions to Faizal. I would like you also to think of the same questions - namely why do people spread such rumours? Is it because they are not responsible?
Deletei am giyato from food tech mam.today spreading fake news is quite increased but when it is a big gossip people will surely cross check it.now a days people believe verified channels & sources only.so such incidents never happen today.
ReplyDeleteGood point Giyato. My only suspicion is all of us may not agree on which channels are verified.
DeleteMyself Ameresh. Yes, it is possible. Like others said, spreading rumor is not a difficult task in this contemporary world. Social media is the largest platform for spreading rumors. Even though we have internet networks through smartphones, we never use it to substantiate whether the news is right or not. At the same time we can’t include everyone under this issue. Some people might not take it as an issue since they knew the truth already. But majority of the people believe whatever they hear they see and never has questioning mind. For ex: Most of the people in India simply trust whatever being broadcasted in the name of “maan ki baat” through radio.
ReplyDeleteVery true Ameresh. You have made precisely the point I have been trying to make. People themselves are responsible for being fooled by rumours.
DeleteI am Harish form Food tech. Such fake news and rumours can spread quickly and there occurs panic among the people. Now a days most of the people are educated so they cross check such news and those panic can be avoided
ReplyDeleteDear Harish. The fact that most people are educated creates its own set of problems. Most educated people have half baked knowledge of things which is worse than complete ignorance. Therefore, they succumb easily to panic by reading up too much.
DeleteI'm Pranav Sankar from Food Tech .I think it's depends upon the psychological mindset of the People . Some will believe in rumours and Some will not . But due to Technological Development , Society threatening Rumours it's not possible Nowadays . People will find out the Truth by Cross checking . So this incident not possible now . Two days ago , I read Indian Express in that WhatsApp share " easy tips" to find out the Fake news .
ReplyDeletePranav, You have neatly summed up what we ve all been making so far.
DeleteGood evening Ma'am. This is Abirami from apparel tech . Fake news are the ones which actually spread faster than the true ones. May be according to this post discussion radio has gone out of fashion but social media especially Twitter has the Highest percentage of spreading fake news which is been proven statistically. Since it's access is easier among the society, the concern people has to address the issue to register what actually happened. On the contrary, fake news are the ones which finally reveal the actual happenings.
ReplyDeleteTrue Abirami. But who do you mean by the concerned people - the government? Or the media? Or the courts? None of these seem to have much impact on the rumour mongers.
DeleteThis is Harish.T. This kind of issues won't happen nowadays, because a news like this investigated by even a common through internet. Nowadays the government is keeping an eye on the media to prevent the spreading of false information
ReplyDeleteYes Harish. But the government keeping an eye on media is also tricky business. Sometimes the surveillance can be so intrusive that we may not have even basic privacy.
DeleteThis is veeramani..this could happen easily.Because nowadays our internet accessibility is high.And most of us surf too much in any social media....for ex: if a msg or any link comes like,see this exciting offer😃...most people will log-in and see,they also think this might be fake but everyone is intrested to try that for the first time may be not the 3rd or 4th time if they again see that msg.
ReplyDeleteI agree Veeramani. We re responsible for our own troubles.
DeleteHai mam, This is Harsni from food tech. In my point of view, fake news spread faster than the real..even though we are educated, ppl don't have time to see if a news they get is true or not, in spite of having all the source in fingertip to cross check...., ppl may or may not try to oppose...it depends on the content of problem and how people look at it:-)
ReplyDeleteHarsni, maybe people do it deliberately to create sensationalism.
DeleteI'm indhu from food tech.Nowadays, this type of fake news can spread easily even we are connected to the internet. Without understanding its concept ,we are spreading this news blindly.when it becomes a big issue, then only people can go through this and cross check it
ReplyDeleteYes Indhu. It just shows that we are not behaving very responsibly.
DeleteI'm Jayasri. I think these kind of rumors are not possible now a days. Because this rumor was spreaded in 1938, which means no internet and television facilites when compared to todays technology. People have to believe what they hear. But now a days, journalists are also more in number, they telecast the current situations. Also each and every second we are receiving the breaking news through internet.
ReplyDeleteDear Jayasri. Only technology has come a long way. But people today are not very different from the people who lived in 1938. Also, today technology has shown us that almost anything is possible. So we tend to believe more in rumours. The tendency I think has increased rather than decreased.
DeleteHello all. This is Srimathi Dharshana.
ReplyDeleteWe are in the era of smartphones and unlimited internet so ppl share whatever they find.
My stand is news gets shared faster it can be crct or fake. When we pass news from ppl to ppl there will be some modification occuring while it is getting passed and bcoz of those tiny extra addition of spices to actual news a new info starts to spread among ppl. And this may also evolve as a fake news.
And not all cross check before sharing. many first spread the news and then only check whether it's crct or not.
There exist some ppl who just post something and enjoy from its outcomes.
As you said ma'am , there were many fake news after dismissal of our former TN CM Jayalalithaa ma'am. May be some educated ppl will check for the genuineness of the news.
Among the common ppl I think it won't happen. They will blindly believe and start to do something like protest etc. And it will end very badly.
Tat to news like alien invasion OMG I can't believe what an outcome it will have.
Many may not agree with this. Waiting for reply.
Thanks for reading my comment 😊.
Dear Srimathi. I agree with you. Rumours do spread like Chinese whispers. In fact, all the recent incidents of lynching of innocent people on the suspicion of being child kidnappers and traffickers are mostly due to suh unverified forwards on social media.
Deletehi mam..this is vidhya from food tech..in my point of view interesting news spreads really faster in this social world either its real or fake..out of curiosity people try to find the true fact behind it..but most of the time fails in the attempt..thus these kind of rumors may spread even in this generation.
ReplyDeleteDear Vidhya, you have made a very valid point. News which is "interesting", in other words, sensational, spreads faster than other types of news. We as human beings are always on the look out for something that titillates our minds. It says something about the human character.
DeleteHello ma'am!. This is Quanitha Sadaf from Apparel Technology. People are quicker to repeat something that's wrong than something that's true. It is seen that fake news spreads like wildfire and lasts longer than the actual news. According to a study, the people are blamed for the fast spreading of fake news rather than the bots. The amount of people listening to radio has reduced nowadays thus spreading fake news through such medium maybe difficult but social media remains the main platform for the spreading of fake news. So something like this can hahapp even now also.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Quanitha. It also means that lies can be tailormade to pique people's interest whereas the truth has to be told as it is and therefore may not be as interesting.
DeleteThis is sushmitha from foodtech...Very nice blog mam but i dont think these fake news is or will be a problem now a days...People hear atleast a single fake news from any media...Even some national medias share much fake news so almost 60% of people are well aware to double check the news before they believe it..remaining 40% people need to be educated about these or they will learn by themselves in near future..
ReplyDeleteDear Sushmitha. I am glad you are an optimist. I wish I could share in your optimism. Yes maybe some day people will become more educated and more aware.
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ReplyDeleteHi mam , I'm Jayaroopinni, apparel. Social media is a powerful weapon nowadays. This kind of radio plays when posted in social media may spready wide far. But , the commotion similar to that in the article may not hapen because people are aware . Rural people may beleive it to an extent if they have access to social media. Considering radio plays alone, the number of people tuning onto radios is considerably less ! So that kind of commotion is not possible nowadays. Medias like television rapidly go through the situation analyse it and so people are informed that its just a play, in such a scenario.
ReplyDeleteYou have made another valid point Jayaroopini. Today's media is not only about content, it also has plenty of metacontent (analysis). Therefore the media not only presents news, it also mediates and tells us how to interpret the news. But in a way this adds to the feeling that the media only treats people as malleable clay who can be moulded in any way the media wants.
DeleteYes in that way , it also tunes the people as it wants. For this case, it saves the day too
DeleteGud eve mam!This is Janani from food tech.This kind of news are happening nowadays... Usually rumours spread faster than real news..Some news which are published in the newspaper are not real..i.e., some are published in order to increase the reader's thirst....Nowadays I think people are enough matured to differentiate real and fake...We come to know about everything through Internet..However the technology might have developed, this kind of rumours are spreading till now in which the social media stands first in this.
ReplyDeleteDear Janani. I am not sure if people have increased in maturity. But technology has come so far that any kind of media manipulation is possible.
DeleteI'm Supraja.R from Food Technology. Nowadays fake news spread rapidly than the true one ,so sometimes people believe the fake news first and then people get cleared later but in some news truth becomes buried. So people should always analyse the news before believing them .
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you Supraja. Nowadays the sheer volume of news that comes to us is so high that the "truth (does) become buried." (I like your phrase very much.)
DeleteHi all... Ma’am this is Joshitha from Apparel technology... I think fake news spread faster nowadays... This is due to the development in technology... The technology not only spreads rumours but also helps people to know if they are true or not... The rumours spread nowadays are so great in number that people don’t even care to know if all of them are true or not... A commotion (like in the above article) can happen but no one will face a situation faced by Welles I guess...as people will have no time to concentrate on one news and they’ll be busy sharing the next rumour😅 We should take tbe responsibility to share things that are true and worthy!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely right Joshitha. The volume of rumours and news is so high that we are unable to concentrate on one for a long time. Social media thrives on breaking news that our memory span is also much less.
DeleteI'm Nishalini from food tech. Internet is one of the major root cause for spreading the news easily than earlier days. People should not believe everything which is given on the internet because sometimes the fake news might have depress the concerned people so they should have clear knowledge about the news before believing that..
ReplyDeleteDear Nishalini. I agree. We cannot depend on anyone to find out the authenticity of news for us. We should take the responsibility ourselves of ascertaining the correctness of what we believe and spread.
DeleteHello Mam, I'm Karthika from Food Tech. ; After reading this passage , First thing strike on my mind is, Why Fake News / Rumors are Spreading through Social media / Other Communication device's???
ReplyDeleteB'coz rumours have some wow factor & some interesting factor included than Real News.That's why only fake news/ rumours are Spreads easily to people.
So cross checking the information received is impossible, b'coz rumours have that wow factor, so human mind thing it is real news.
We can't stop fake news/ Rumours easily , but we can avoid that type of information received from people, on that time mind strikes that, this is doubtful information.
So we can stop forwarding that fake news/ rumours if u have doubt at your mind.
That's all Mam, Above points are commented according to my point of view only.
You are right Karthika. I think others have also made this point earlier. Fake news has a certain sensational quality that the truth does not.
DeleteHi.. all this is yuvaraj.p from ceramic
ReplyDeleteIt is a bad thing in the current trends using social media for spreading fake news and rumors and it also killed some people's in recent years .Now a days spreading a fake news is very simple but the real thing is our mind will oscillate so it forgot the truth and real facts easily .
But the good news is some social media like scroll ,logical Indian helps to cross check the relevant facts is genuine or not.
In the olden days with out any Internet people only believe in radios for to check that they need scientific articles published in books for reference otherwise they easily believe the rumors .
In short now a days we can come across lots of fake news and rumors so try to search for the real facts behind the news will be a better to choice .
Yes Yuvaraj. That is a very balanced perspective. WE cannot blame the internet for everything. The internet is a medium that has both good and bad aspects. While it can aid the spread of rumours, it can also aid the cross checking of rumours. We are entirely responsible for sifting the truth from falsehood.
DeleteI am Vishal Raswanth from apparel technology.Nowadays some fake news also promoted by news channel like,In 2012 most of thechannels hot news was the Mayan Calendar was written only till the year 2012 so the world will by the end of 2012 and they called it as the doomsday some suicide actions also takes place all over the world.Fake news are also spread along with some important news in mediae.But people now get aware in these days that everything in media is not true and they confirmed it also by arising questions in social media because everyone in the world is connected through it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Vishal for recollecting an example that many of us forgot. In fact I believe there was a movie by the name 2012 which dealt with this idea.
DeleteHi I'm Suraj,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the post about the fake news and listening the radio's original broadcast , My view is that Welles and his Mercury Theater's personnel intentionally spread this fake news to gain point of attraction, since Welles has played already the innovative characters like Julius Caesar etc., he became a people's person so whatever he said with his crew it was blindly believed by the people at that period of time since there was no cross checking of any information whether it is false or true and also the way he played the skit "The World of Wars" by H.G.Wells and using the background music in the broadcast and also the smart way of using the commentators to be in the different parts of the world made the people to believe blindly since they reported that the martians have invaded the great colonizer of that time "The Great Britain" so it was for sure for the people to believe.
And talking about the current period it is not easily possible to spread any fake news which can cause a National Hysteria because of the evolution of current communication technology, If someone wants to do the same thing then he has to be computer hacker and hack all the websites to show the same fake news everywhere where people go for crosschecking.
Also this kind of rumours can be spread by people's person like present day politicians
so we need to be careful while watching or listening this type of news because even if some news is true now-a-days people are not believing it so we should handle every type of news very carefully!
Dear Suraj. Am not sure about whether Welles did it deliberately. (We should consider the fact that he had nothing to gain and everything to lose.) But you are right about how we should approach news.
DeleteHii mam...This is Jayasiva from Food Tech..Even though rumours spread fast....Just becoz these news spread easily doesn't mean they are believed by people. Ppl are interested only in sharing some different messages.They don't believe such news as they don't spend time to check whether they are fake or true.Only some people will go through the depth to get to know the true fact about it .
ReplyDeleteTrue Jayasiva. People today spread news indiscriminately whether they believe it or not. And our attention and memory span is so short that we don't bother to think about it for too long.
DeleteI am mukesh from apparel technology.due to development of technology and social media services the news may spread faster to every one.now days people more aware of their surrounding.people wont believe such kind of news.
ReplyDeleteYes Mukesh. People today are more aware of their surrounding. But this doesn't mean that they are not prone to sensationalism.
DeleteHi mam..this is E.Ramya barathi from Food tech.Yes there are more chances for such incidence to occur today .B' coz in today's world people being more connected to whatsapp, fb, instagram, hike etc easily believe rumours without checking whether it is true or not and are more curious in spreading it through social medias , unaware of the consequences to be faced..technology improvement plays an important role in making people more confused about the rumours.
ReplyDeleteYes Ramya, you are right. Once again it boils down to the fact that people are unaware or not bothered about the consequences of what they do.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Praveen from Apparel. I personally think that these kind of news won't create a panic among the masses these days as people are more updated and would know if something that serious happens.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your optimism Praveen, though I don't share it.
DeleteHi mam, I'm Kanimozhi from ceramic dept. Yes mam this happens today because in this fast world ,no one has time to think wise and re- check the news even though we are ahead in technology now. This trend is not only now or past ,it's from ancient period our ancestors without any media and only by the letter or communications they blindly believe everything.And we can't say sure that we can stop this trend in future until we change ourselves in the state of mind.Moreover,it depends on the individual who make serious issues for every news get panic by believing it.I'm damn sure that this will be continued in our trend also because till now we don't the reason for the death of our former CM Jayalalitha..Until and unless if we are some channel reporter or politician then we can able to know some real news till then for Normal people it is difficult to identify the fake news.
ReplyDeleteTrue Kanimozhi. It all depends out our state of mind as you say. We are finally responsible for what we believe.
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ReplyDeleteHello mam this is S. Arun Iyappan B. Tech Ceramic, According to my point of view nowadays these type of rumors have a great effect in the social media and people doesn't know whether it is right or wrong. In internet also some informations are not real. So, If we want to find this out we want to search with our knowledge in deep. Then I consider some people's may do it for publicity also.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Arun. Again you ve reiterated the idea that the responsibility lies with the individual.
DeleteHi, I'm Kavitha.
ReplyDeleteIn this busy world people just believe in these fake news, although they may crosscheck it later, initially it will cause a commotion in the society. News like these may also be spread by famous personalities to gain popularity among people. Normal people fall a prey to these fake news very easily.
Thank u.
Yes Kavitha, I think almost all of us agree that we as a generation are taken in by fake news.
DeleteHello Mam! I'm Arjun.R from Food tech..upto my point of view false news is spreading faster nowadays and lots of people get affected by it ..as a typical example we can take the incident which occured in assam before a month ..two men were killed due to false news spread on watsapp ..they were accused of child kidnapping and beaten to death by the people and some were taking video while beating them ..The reality is they stopped the car to ask directions but they misunderstood them because of fake news....these kind of things happen everywhere but mainly in rural areas ..
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely right Arjun. Good example.
DeleteHai Mam! I'm Gayathri.S from Food tech... Nowadays Fake news spreads more faster and deeper than truth.. The main reason why people believe these news depends upon their interest and curiosity...Not all fake news and Rumours goes Viral.. For example: More Cinema fake news are spreading daily..only some people believe in it..Some people don't even notice those kind of interest..Fake news about Common Problems affects people... The fake news happened in the post occurred in 1938..the period where there were only Radio, Newspaper and Tv..but Nowadays We have lots of sources for knowing the updates.. So Spreading Fake news is very easier now.
ReplyDeleteThank you
True Gayathri. Technology has made mischief that much easier to spread.
DeleteThis is Govindaraj .R. This is won't in these days because people will check the genuineness of the information
ReplyDeleteDear Govindaraj. I am glad you are one of the optimists who believes that the common man is blessed with common sense. But like someone said "common sense is the most uncommon quality."
DeleteYes mam, my point of view today have a lot of facilities like enormous news channel's, face book sites so people check the information using internet, today uneducated peoples also access the internet.
DeleteThis is Johnson. It can't be happening today.people easily differentiate the rumours and the real one..
ReplyDeleteDear Johnson. My reply to you is the same as the one I gave to Govind. Please go through that reply.
DeleteThis is Rajkumar R. Rumours can spread easily and more fast. Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumours get started. I guess rumours are more exciting than the truth. There are new rumours about something everyday. We are always the source of the rumours. Only minimum number of people uses radio nowadays.
ReplyDeleteIt is very true Rajkumar. Rumours are more exciting than the truth. So are we as a race always on the look out for excitement?
DeleteThis is tamil priyaa from food tech. Now adays people are busy with their own work they don't have time to check whether the news is real or fake. So, the rumors are speard too fast than the truth.
ReplyDeleteIn urban areas people have more access to Internet so they can verify the news they hear is true or fake....But in rural areas people easy believe in fake news and are mostly affected.
True Tamilpriyaa. We are so caught up in our selfish pursuits that we don't have the time to check the veracity of anything we hear or come across.
DeleteHi mam... I'm Yuvaraj A from ceramic tech. According to my point of opinion about above passage, I think these kind of rumours really create a panic in that kind of days bcoz we have no development in technology.
ReplyDeleteBut, nowadays, we have an development in technology, these kind of rumours happens, people doesn't know whether it is right or wrong. We want to search it with our mind and then spread the news.. That's the most imp thing I think so...
Perhaps you are right Yuvaraj. Nowadays also rumours do spread and people do believe in them. But as a generation we are so desensitised that we don't panic so easily.
DeleteI'am prabaharan .it's happence today becouse now a days people find new things in the network and what the people says in the video they belived in some couse..
ReplyDeleteI agree Prabaharan. We are always on the look out for something new and exciting that we are willing to believe almost anything.
DeleteHi mam, I am PREMNATH from ceramic .May be it ll Happen.. Some Rural people believe in this type of rumours. Because of no awareness. But in urban, even people are connected through whatsapp , fb and other social media No one was checking the rumor.. because they had not enough time.. ��
ReplyDeleteYes Premnath. Most of us blame lack of time for everything.
DeleteHi mam this is loganathan T from ceramic technology. In my point of view there many chances to create like these type of news and also it is easily spread through social media's. But nowadays peoples are more updated even the person is uneducated. If the person uneducated the known people will explain to them about what is behind these type of news. So it will not create any panic in the modern society.
ReplyDeleteGood point Loganathan. The educated people must take the responsibility to clarify things to the uneducated. We should become more responsible citizens.
DeleteHii mam this is sakthivel form ceramic technology. Now a day's this type rumar are published by many more social media's . We are all connected to the social media. So spread easily, without understanding the concept of this news. When it is become a large issue, then only people are investigating the fact of that news. So the people should analyse the news before believing them.
ReplyDeleteI agree Sakthivel. The responsibility does rest with us.
DeleteSpreading rumors is possible in social media, but these are depend on how the people think about that news
ReplyDeleteTrue Saranraj. It all depends on how we approach news. The media, especially electronic and social media have become impersonal media. It all depends on us how we make use of it.
DeleteHi ma'am..I am Ramya from food tech...I would say that there is very high possibility of spreading a fake news now-a-days when compared to those days....and of course it is technology which made it easier...
ReplyDeleteFake news can also affect some people psychologically...so these things has to be taken seriously before spreading any news...and i feel that people in our country should start realizing their responsibility and act accordingly..
Hi ma'am ..I am P S Bhavani from food technology. Yes mam this happens today not only due to technology. Some people might also responsible for this. Whatever news they heard they might add extra butter to it and when it passes from one ppl to others, it might lead to evolution of fake news.
ReplyDeleteHi mam. I am Santhosh Kumar from ceramic technology ..I don't think this won't happen now a days like spreading fake news in social media ...Some people may believe and some people may not...Just we have to check whether the news is fake or not...
ReplyDeleteHi mam,this is PADMAPRIYA from food tech. I do agree with these kind of happenings occurs even today. We all know that "fake" news has high rate of propagation,it reaches the mob as soon as possible. This may be because of the day-to-day technology that we use. On the other hand these so called hi-technologies play a major role spreading rumors. This is because according to the internet data base it just an information that is receiving,it doesn't bother about the fact,truth behind that piece of information. And more over we the "inexorable" humans don't find time to cross check the information what we see or hear,because of our so called busy schedules.the thing is now a days spreading of rumors take a fraction of seconds as technology is at it's peak.
ReplyDeleteHi mam.. This is Abinaya from food technology . I think that spreading of fake news occurs even today also because we are not aware about the happenings and we are just reading something and just forwarded it..Without further investigation.
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