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> can kind of make things up but still make them believable

This is the definition of a bullshitter, by the way.

Or, you know, fiction writer. Some of us like little stories.

Its important that anyone reading fiction knows its fiction.

Without that we can run into a situation where a fictional story on the radio convinces the public that we are under alien attack in what could be called a war of the worlds.

Yes! Or a situation where the public was not under any misconception at all, where there were multiple intermissions throughout the play calling attention to the fact that it was a work of fiction, but someone made up the idea of mass panic because it made for a good story that sold a lot of newspapers!

I would say that it's the responsibility of the reader to read any content in the context of which it's published. For example, to expect a radio play to be fictional as the vast majority of listeners did.

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