PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 961: The Non-Existant Best Seller
Mass media makes public opinion ridiculously easy to manipulate. The War of the Worlds broadcast from 1938 is one such example, but another lesser-known example happened a couple decades later that resulted in a fictitious book making it to the New York Times bestseller list (and ultimately got made into a real book).
Links:
- The War of the Worlds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Bestseller Book That Didn’t Exist: how the author of a beloved Christmas classic pulled off the Hoax of the Century - J. Mark Powell
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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 961: The Non-Existant Best Seller
