In 1938 Orson Wells won fame and infamy when his radio play “War of the Worlds,” an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ book (written 40 years earlier) caused mass panic.

Fast forward to 2006.
February.
The US marketing machine in full mode.
A fake website.
A blog. 
A ninth novel of the apocalypic kind called “Prayers for the Assassin” by Robert Ferrigno. An interview with a senior news producer at CNN. Not an intertainment reporter, a news reporter, who thinks this marketing campaign by Scribner is clever.

Bartholomew’s notes on Religion posted about this novel and Ferrigno’s blog in December. The book is out, The Revealer covers the marketing campaign.

a novel depicting a dystopian future wherein the U.S. is under Islamic rule, and Superbowls are punctuated by calls to prayer — talks to Henry Schuster, CNN’s terrorism specialist. Digest that for a minute. The author of a pulp-novel trading in some of the worst fears, and deepest bigotries, of the country — and which, by the way, is being promoted a la Godsend or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with a fake news site that details life in “The Islamic States of America” (keep your eyes open for headlines about removing Holocaust references from Cleveland textbooks and ads for crunchy Arabian breakfast cereal) — gets interviewed not by a books or entertainment editor but by a terrorism specialist? What gives? Where’s the hook?

There is a fiction disclaimer at the bottom of the site.
If you look for it.
Anything to sell a book.