Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @MichaelElsenRoo: New: In 2 of the city’s most diverse (and segregated) districts, the wealthiest + whitest schools are seeing far great… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daveyalba: NEW: A network of 1,300 websites aim to fill a news void left by vanishing local papers across the U.S. It is built on propa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bryancurtis: In 2018, ⁦@stephenhero⁩ wrote a great, warts-and-all story about Sid Hartman. https://t.co/LxTFNlUibI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SeifertESPN: Sid lived for 13 more years after accosting Prince -- yes, that Prince -- in a hallway a couple days before Super Bowl XLI… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew In the before times, people went to ~ 1.5 shows per year. You can certainly bump that number up online but I don’t think by much. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JNavok @akruglov @ballmatthew Yes it serves an infinite audience and can be rerun without any new cost. So there may well be a business there! But without scarcity the value is so much less (on both sides). — PolitiTweet.org

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Caught up to this excellent essay. now. Not nearly as excited as Matthew is about virtual concerts (not just because I don’t like them personally, but because I think the biz opttys are limited to one-offs, so not nearly so scalable). But! Great long-term framing and thinking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasongay “The wire may be good but it’s overrated. The Shield is much better, so why aren’t we talking about that? Because it doesn’t fit you Golden Age Of TV agenda?” — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasongay Yes. But also if you said that and you made TV shows for a living. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanglick But if you're a political leader? Amazing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanglick Think so. If he was a regular person it would make much more sense, since the worst effects are so profoundly concentrated on specific population bands. If you're a middle/upper middle class white person you may know very few people who have been seriously sick. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dickc It's October. Are these still happening? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanglick It is *wild*. Not unexpected, but still *wild* to be in a place where you say, straightfaced, that now that you've had Covid you realize it's a really big deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Zuckerberg is making a rare (for him) and significant foray into California politics. @teddyschleifer wrote ab… https://t.co/arBpnTsTcZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@zachweinberg I mean, you’re welcome! And if you have to reallocate resources, def dump season 5. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jherskowitz We *love* Central Park. Everyone else *loves* Ted lasso, which we like. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pkafka: You don't believe in Qanon but way too many people do. Soon one of them will be in Congress. NBC News' Ben @oneunderscore__ Col… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jherskowitz Think it’s more that they know you (and most other people) haven’t watched it and they’re hoping you spend more time with it over Xmas break. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zachweinberg Terrible call on season 2. Try it again. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ditzkoff: the important thing is that, by offering Trump a competing town hall, NBC was able to maintain its dignity and avoid the wrat… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmilyStewartM PS are you a real person? — PolitiTweet.org

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Last month, for instance, DraftKings essentially guaranteed me a $50 win if I bet on an NFL game. (I won!) Obviously you, the would-be gambler, should think about the fact that the gaming companies are confident they're going to make all that money back - from you. — PolitiTweet.org

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All the old and new betting players think they're racing each other as sports betting expands, state by state. So they're throwing a ton of money to build up branding etc — and, if you're in a state with legal betting, they'll spend a ton of money to get you in the virtual door. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big Media has been counting on sports betting money to give it a boost for a couple years. https://t.co/VwyZOT9Jll Now it's happening: Turner Sports announced new deals with DraftKings and FanDuel today; I'm told they are worth > $300 million over 5 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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I talked to ESPN's excellent @PabloTorre about many things, because he talks about many things on his ESPN Daily pod and frequent TV pop-ins. Among them: How Bill O'Reilly kick-started his career. Also a Lucy reference: https://t.co/LXxz3t49CA https://t.co/x82LWX14HX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @voxdotcom: Facebook and Twitter took drastic measures to limit the reach of a controversial news story about Hunter Biden https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't believe I've ever seen them do this with a mainstream outlet — which happens to be owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is both a Facebook friend (see last year, in NYC https://t.co/HHnVifliCo) and a Facebook foe (see now, in Australia) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pkafka: One way to get rich: Start a newsletter company in college. Work very hard! And - don't take a lot of outside investment if you… — PolitiTweet.org

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And here's Morning Brew owner-to-be @hblodget: "I can’t confirm anything, but speaking hypothetically, we’d be happy to be in talks with them. Alex and Austin are amazing entrepreneurs, and it’s a terrific company." https://t.co/nZhiQvOHZk — PolitiTweet.org

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One way to get rich: Start a newsletter company in college. Work very hard! And - don't take a lot of outside investment if you don't have to. Morning Brew co-founders say they only raised $750k; now they could sell their company for $75 million. — PolitiTweet.org