Goebbels justified state radio control as a government duty to shape mass will.

Evidence

In August 1933, Goebbels gave a speech outlining his priorities. “The radio,” he said, “is the most influential and important intermediary between a spiritual movement and the nation, between the idea and the people.” As such, it had to be the center of the Nazi project: “A government that has determined to bring a nation together so that it is once more a center of power in the scales of great world events has not only the right, but the duty, to subordinate all aspects of the nation to its goals, or at least ensure that they are supportive. That is also true for the radio. The more significant something is in influencing the will of the broad masses, the greater its responsibility to the future of the nation.” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 413

Categorization

• SEED: A 1933 speech directly theorizing state capture of mass attention as a ‘duty’ — a strong primary-source anchor for an essay on the ideology behind attention monopolies.