Well, news has been a part of radio programs. Aside from the songs comedy, music, serials and drama, news is one of the programs we can attend to in the radio. As what I observe in our society, we are easily being wrapped up with what we hear. If people nowadays are like this, I believe that people who lived in the early 2oth century might as well be similar to us. As we can see and experience, technology is ubiquitous.. It really booms every generation. Today, cell phone is the most common thing we use to communicate. But, don’t you notice that even if we have cell phones or telephones, we still consider immediately the news or hullabaloos that we hear in the radio? Like for example.. In my elementary and high school years, one of the things that our school is known for is that, whenever there is a storm or heavy rain, classes are never suspended unlike in the other schools. Most probably, we would hear this in the radio.. “Classes will be suspended due to the bad weather.” When some of the parents of the new students heard the announcement in the radio, they believed in it. As a result, they didn’t let their children to come to school. The point is, even if we have these things that we use to communicate, we sometimes don’t bother to use it to confirm things because we heard it in the radio and so, we immediately get a hold of the information given to us. Somehow, except for some instances, I am like that. I easily believe in everything I hear in the radio as true – may it be an announcement or news.
Now, suppose that I am one of those 32 million people listening to the broadcast at that evening. Would I have been affected by it like the other listeners??
Well of course I would. My first reason would have been that, if the broadcast was being heard by over millions of people. Why would they broadcast that news if that was just for fun? What they have broadcasted was a serious matter. For me, there are two factors that would induce me to consider the broadcast as true.
One is the way the program is arranged or presented. In what I have listened to, the original dramatization of the war of the worlds by H.G Wells, it seemed to be believable because of the order of the program where in the first one was the introduction of the director of the Mercury theater and star of the broadcast.. and then, there was a sudden weather report and then later, an interview with an astronomer about what he saw as he observed Mars.. the orchestra, the intercontinental news from Toronto Canada.. These things.. I mean, as a listener, I would really believe in the news because they had their way of satisfying the listeners through the information they want us to get; and by their way of supporting their news, they were able to use persons to support their broadcast. The interviews with the astronomer and professor in the broadcast as well as the sudden emergence of the weather reports adds to the factor that the listeners may consider in order to believe in the announcements that has been mentioned.
The other factor is that the reporter was persuasive in his way of speech that he seizes the attention and feelings of the listeners. The most apprehensive part was when he was already saying everything he was seeing and the listeners too, were hearing everything-the commotion.. and then he suddenly coughed because of the black smoke. The coughing really proved that what was being heard from his mouth and the background were true and because we hear him experience it; also when the difficulty on field transmission was illustrated wherein the broadcast became choppy up to the moment he vanished.
Now, suppose that I am one of those 32 million people listening to the broadcast at that evening. Would I have been affected by it like the other listeners??
Well of course I would. My first reason would have been that, if the broadcast was being heard by over millions of people. Why would they broadcast that news if that was just for fun? What they have broadcasted was a serious matter. For me, there are two factors that would induce me to consider the broadcast as true.
One is the way the program is arranged or presented. In what I have listened to, the original dramatization of the war of the worlds by H.G Wells, it seemed to be believable because of the order of the program where in the first one was the introduction of the director of the Mercury theater and star of the broadcast.. and then, there was a sudden weather report and then later, an interview with an astronomer about what he saw as he observed Mars.. the orchestra, the intercontinental news from Toronto Canada.. These things.. I mean, as a listener, I would really believe in the news because they had their way of satisfying the listeners through the information they want us to get; and by their way of supporting their news, they were able to use persons to support their broadcast. The interviews with the astronomer and professor in the broadcast as well as the sudden emergence of the weather reports adds to the factor that the listeners may consider in order to believe in the announcements that has been mentioned.
The other factor is that the reporter was persuasive in his way of speech that he seizes the attention and feelings of the listeners. The most apprehensive part was when he was already saying everything he was seeing and the listeners too, were hearing everything-the commotion.. and then he suddenly coughed because of the black smoke. The coughing really proved that what was being heard from his mouth and the background were true and because we hear him experience it; also when the difficulty on field transmission was illustrated wherein the broadcast became choppy up to the moment he vanished.
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