Did WBZ-TV cross the line on July 4th concerning public

[A Joseph Ross]

On 7/8/2012 1:00 PM, Attorney Chase wrote:

> Joe:
>
> Hasn't this sort of nonsense been illegal ever since the Orson Welles 
> War of the World incident?

I don't know if it was a law, but I know that for awhile after that 
broadcast, the method of doing a dramatic show with simulated newscasts 
was banned, by the networks if not by the government.  But what I 
described was not that.

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