Independence Day Panic

[Cesar Usan <ceus@...>]

 Reenvio este mensaje recibido en la lista de Skeptic de USA.
 Alguien se ha enterado de lo que dice este tio o es que se quiere quedar
con nosotros?. O es que se creen que en Espaņa somos tan ignorantes como ellos?

 Muchas gracias

  Un saludo
 
     Cesar

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>AP 9-Sep-1996 23:18 EDT
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>MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Hundreds of panicked Spaniards flooded TV and
>radio switchboards with calls this weekend when
>a newscaster broke in with a report showing
>space aliens hovering over
>New York.
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>The purported news flashes that appeared Saturday and Sunday on the
>Telecinco network were in fact advertisements
>for the film "Independence Day," which opens in
>Spain on Friday.
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>The PubliEspana advertising firm figured viewers wouldn't be taken
>in by the spoof of Orson Welles' "The War
>of the Worlds" -- the 1938 radio play that created a
>short but memorable panic in
>the United States.
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>We wanted to do something different, cause some excitement, but
>certainly not fear," an advertising executive,
>Jose Luis Andarias, said Monday.
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>But plenty of Spaniards believed the film's scenes of a White House
>press conference about th invasion, and an
>announcer breaking away to shots of New Yorkers
>fleeing in the streets.
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>Tad Cook
>tad en ssc.com
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