THE WAR OF THE WORDS
1.On october 30, 1983, CBS Radio interrupted a live music progr am to deliver an important announcement. said that astronomers had detected blue flmes shooting up from the surface
of Mars. Thebroadcast returned to its music, but it was soon interrupted again. The time the news said that a strange meteor had fallen on a farm near Grover's mill in now Jersed, and then CBS Radio switched over to continuous live coverage of the eerie scene around the meteor crash
2. As the event unfolded, the terrified audience discovered that the meteor was actually some king of spaceship. the reporter on the sene described the emergence of an alien from the spacecraft. "Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake," he said, in an appropriately dramatic tone of voice. "now it's another one, and another. They look like tentales to me. There, l can see the thing's body. lt's as large as abear, and it glistens like wet leather. But that face. lt...it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is V-shaped with salive dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate... The thing is rising up. The crowd falls back. They've seen enough. This is the most extraordinary experience. I can't find words. I'm pulling this microphone with me as I talk. I'ii have to stop the description until I've taken a new position. Hold on, will you please, I'ii be back in a minute