Critical Reasoning (CR) | The panic touched off by Orson Welless 1938

The panic touched off by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of the science-fiction classic War of the Worlds has often been the ascribed to the lingering anxieties of the Depression era and apprehension about the a second world war; political and economic unease supposedly made people psychologically prepared to believe that Earth had been invaded byMartians.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the attempt above to explain the panic of1938?

(A) Film adaptations of War of the Worlds are generally regarded as less realistic than Welles’s radioversion.
(B) Rebroadcasts of Welles's War of the Worlds during times of peace and economic optimism have on occasion resulted in similarpanics.
(C) The 1898 publication of the novel on which the radiobroadcast of War of the Worlds was based resulted in no publicdisturbances.
[color=#000000] (D) Even after the invasion depicted in the 1938 radio broadcast had been widely publicized as fictitious, some people
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