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Last night I watched a library DVD called Days that Shook the World. It's a BBC documentary about defining historical events, very interesting. My favourite was the show they did about famous hoaxes. First they covered Orson Welles' 1938[?] broadcast of War of the Worlds, which drove many listeners into a panic, thinking that the world was being invaded by Martians. They deserved it for trusting a broadcasting network. That hoax ended favourably for Welles. Lucky for him, his broadcast included interruptions to explain that the invasion was not for real. The other hoax they talked about was Hitler's so-called diaries from 1983. Rupert Murdoch got all excited and bought them. Then when their authenticity appeared doubtful, it looks like he told the newspaper to go ahead and print the story anyway. The German author of this hoax went to prison for fraud. Has Murdoch ever been in prison for fraud? Maybe one day they'll do a program about all the fraud committed with my work over a seven year period, right up to Taylor's Canada Day concert here in July of this year. It would have to be much longer than one hour, though.
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