Why Did the Public Find It Easy to Believe That

question 80

Multiple Choice

Why did the public find it easy to believe that Orson Welles's broadcast of War of the Worlds was a real event?

• A) Newspapers also printed the story as true.
• B) It was done in the style of a real news broadcast.
• C) A sizable meteor really did hit New Jersey that day.
• D) The broadcast was never identified as fiction or a dramatization.
• E) All of the options are correct.

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Definitions:

Fixed Manufacturing Expenses

Costs that do not change with the level of production, such as rent, salaries, and depreciation of equipment.

Selling and Administrative Expenses

Costs related to the selling of products and the administration of the business, not directly tied to production.

Constrained Resource

A limited resource in a production or project management environment that can restrict output or throughput.

Current Profitability

A measure of a company's financial performance in the short term, often evaluating the income it generates over a recent period against the expenses.