How did Orson Welles's interview after the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds differ from the New York Times account of it?

At the very start of the radio drama, Orson Welles had repeatedly said that the said drama is a science fiction. The sci-fi radio drama was said to cause mass panic because of its realistic script. Orson Welles also believed there might have been a small percentage of the population that was panicking. It was also stated in New York Times, that people were in a mass panic because of the drama itself. However, C. E Hopper had proven that no such thing had happened.