Letter to the CBS ; war of the worlds

Dear staff from this vulgar “joke”,

Was it meant to be funny? I can tell you it wasn´t! My family and I were hearing this broadcast and first we couldn´t believe the news about the gas explosions on mars. But at that time we didn´t care so much because mars is far away and on earth is everything okay. Then came the thing whith the meteorite which landed on the farm. My mother (an older woman) was so shocked that we had to calm her because she was going to hyperventilate. I have to admit that i was shocked,too. We all were sitting tense besides the radio. When the martian-noises were comming out the meteorite I send my children into bed because they were nearly crying and i could understand that only too well. After that my mother fainted. We all paniced because it sounded so real and there was music playing sometimes like in a normal radio broadcast. So there were no signs for this to be not real. And that makes me angry! Just in the end we checked slowly that it was a fake and at that time my pulse was nearly 180. And we were not the onlyone who reacted like this!

sincerely, Lisa S.