The Reichsfunk-Gesellschaft, with the rest of the ministry's apparatus, was designed to smelt an entire people into a single mass consciousness. Other governments—fascist, communist, democratic—had also experimented with efforts to form, in Creel's expression, this “white hot mass.” And after the war, both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China would conduct vigorously biased and sustained programs of state broadcasting, ultimately reaching more people. But the Third Reich remains unrivaled in its reach into daily life and its power of coercion.

Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, loc. 384