Early media executives led leisure-heavy lives unlike modern workaholic CEOs.
Evidence
Meanwhile, with its head start and double-barreled broadcasting, NBC would remain ascendant for most of the 1930s. Sarnoff would continue to imagine he had one further advantage, and that was Paley himself, or at least his bon vivant side. In a way that seems strange in our age of twenty-four-hour days and driven CEOs, Paley never let his work get in the way of his truest passion, living the good life. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 360
Categorization
- XREF: Paley’s easy living contrasts sharply with the 24/7 executive culture in the reader’s attention-platform literature. — connects to: Early media proprietors self-aggrandized grandly while chasing reader attention
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Early media proprietors self-aggrandized grandly while chasing reader attention