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War of the Worlds mastermind Orson Welles was well-prepared to make a movie about a press lord and politician unconcerned with the facts. The film is more relevant than ever.
A. Brad Schwartz is the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, the paperback edition of which will be released on May 17.