A single radio broadcast reached most American adults and triggered federal intervention

Evidence

Winchell was estimated to reach “fifty million Americans—out of an adult population of roughly seventy-five million” who either listened to him on the radio or read his newspaper column. It wasn’t long before her story reached the highest levels of government. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 180

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A single radio show captured one-third of the US population nightly by 1931 — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 315; FCC regulators once tried to force radio to serve the public interest — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 377
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A single radio show captured one-third of the US population nightly by 1931 — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 315; FCC regulators once tried to force radio to serve the public interest — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 377