Aftermath of a fictitious newscast

[Article] More than 24 hours after its broadcast, Belgians—and many others around the world—are still talking about it. A newscast hoax that aired Wednesday night had many spectators believing that Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of the country in the north, had proclaimed independence and separated.


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The performance, which appeared on state television channel RTBF, drew inevitable comparisons with Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds in 1938, which prompted panic throughout the United States as many listeners were convinced that aliens were invading their...
This article was published Friday, 15 December, 2006 by AFP
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Aftermath of a fictitious newscast


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