Rival broadcast titans came from different class trajectories within one immigrant community

Evidence

Sarnoff, schooled in a Minsk yeshiva to be a Talmudic scholar, was brought to America a penniless immigrant; he grew into a gruff and domineering self-made man. “There was no mistaking what David Sarnoff wanted,” said longtime NBC executive David Adams. “There was no bullshit.” Paley, by contrast, had acquired position, together with polish, as a birthright. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 347

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to a media-history friend: the two founding giants of American broadcasting, both Russian Jews, were a self-made Talmudic scholar vs. a Harvard-born heir.
• XREF: connects to: Migrant workers and descendants hold a distinct class position yielding distinct politics — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2174; Labor migrants can transform their class status through strategic migration — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 699; Migrant illegality subsumes and obscures distinct race and class dynamics — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 50 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Migrant workers and descendants hold a distinct class position yielding distinct politics #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2174
• Migrant illegality subsumes and obscures distinct race and class dynamics #qualifies (0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 50
• Labor migrants can transform their class status through strategic migration #expands (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 699
• Diaspora cultural identification persists across multiple generations #expands (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 818
• When consensus frays, media become the terrain of ideological class conflict #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875