Read the following transcript of the end of Orson Welles's radio broadcast of
the War of the Worlds, in which a narrator remembers a time when aliens
invaded Earth. During the radio broadcast, many audience members became
convinced that the story of an alien invasion was truly happening.
We annihilated the world before your very ears tonight, and
utterly destroyed the C.B.S. You will be relieved, I hope, to
learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are
still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and
remember the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That
grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an
inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings
and nobody's there, that was no Martian... it's Hallowe'en.
Based on the transcript, what did Welles most likely want people to consider
after listening to his broadcast?
A. How damaging radio is to people's morality
B. How vulnerable they were to the messages of media
C. That the book of The War of the Worlds is better than the radio
play
D. That the events really could happen