Britain pioneered state-controlled broadcast propaganda before Nazi Germany did.

Evidence

As in other areas of propaganda, Britain was arguably the pioneer: in the 1920s, the BBC was by far the most advanced state-owned radio system in the world, and by 1924, it would first begin broadcasting speeches by King George V—long before the stammering George VI would have to rally the nation to challenge the Third Reich. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 414

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s goal of historical grounding for attention industries — state radio as a pre-Nazi precursor. — connects to: Nazi Germany institutionalized state attention capture through a propaganda ministry — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411; The Reich established an official ministry to engineer state propaganda in 1933 — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 411; World War I forced the first systematic state-run propaganda campaigns. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 127 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• World War I forced the first systematic state-run propaganda campaigns. #qualifies (0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 127
• British WWI propaganda directly schooled Hitler on mass persuasion techniques #expands (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 173
• Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself #corroborates (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 182
• WWI propaganda pioneered totalizing capture of every available medium #expands (0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 156
• British war propagandists discovered mass attention’s power before commerce did #corroborates (0.70) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 15