HW; The Czech War of the Worlds

1. The article is about a czech hoax created by an artists group. They frightned  a lot of people with a digital image of a nuclear blast which they put in a live wheathercam broadcast by climbing a Tv tower an hacking into the wheather camera with a computer . With this hoax they wanted to show how easy people are to manipulate and they wanted to open their eyes. They wanted nothing bad but nevertheless now some of them maybe have to go in prison.

2. The title is almost the same as the one from Orson Welles hoax. In the one from O.W. it has to do with martians who landed on earth and they started in some way a war against the humans and in the czech version of this there is a nuclear blast – so it could be a “real” war with “real” people. For this hoax they used footage and that makes it very believable because people believe things earlier when they see it with their own eyes and it was published  in a wheatercam broadcast. O.W.´s hoax was only presented on radio but at that time there was no TV so it was realistic for the people,too, because of the sound effects and it was also published as a radio news report. But i think that O.W´s hoax caused more fear and panic. And one more difference is that O.W. did not had to go in prison for that.

3. Maybe there are differences between this hoax and the one from Orson Welles because  the czech artists group hacked their hoax illegal in the live wheathercam broadcast and they only had the opportunity to show a short image. Orson Welles hoax was his own radio show and they announced it and its duration was much longer so that the chance that more people hear it is bigger when they switch in to different times. I think that a lot less people saw the hoax from the czech war of worlds and because of that its effect was not so big as from Orson Welles.