Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @ShiraOvide: Old (2020) rules of entertainment: Streaming good. More subscribers good. New rules, from @pkafka: "Figure out how to cre… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@carloshasanax You probably would have gotten fox regardless - that’s a big deal buy they locked up a long time ago. Also to be fair - which is a weird thing to type wrt to musk - I see google serving up stuff like ear wax picks in nyt stories all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@cbatty There was a second button for super duper hardcore but you could only see it if you could actually code — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@RMac18 @matthewherper And that’s a promise you can count on. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Also if we are doing lemonade/lemons here: Instructive for any current or potential Musk employees laboring under the belief he means what he says/tweets. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

This is lousy for those sales folks but at least they no longer have to sell ads for someone who’s actively trying to tank his ad business. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Last week: You can stay if you’re extremely hardcore. Today: I meant extra extremely hardcore. Psyche! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@MattGarrahan https://t.co/iYVykjb05Z — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

“It’s a very different landscape than even 18 months ago,” an executive at one of Disney’s competitors texted to me. “Hopefully he can figure out the model. No one has yet.” — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @benfritz: I did not realize when I wrote this article five years ago that it would age like a fine bottle of wine. https://t.co/42x8TXG… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@RobertAndrews Hah! My middle name is Welsh but my knowledge of the language ends there. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

The World Cup is underway and it’s in Qatar and that makes watching it a morally complicated experience. @MenInBlazers’ @rogbennett walks us through the ethical minefield, just in time for the US/Wales game this afternoon. https://t.co/lZqG6VKff5 https://t.co/4JGe4YjOm1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mattyglesias Yes. Or that so much of the weird shit we saw previously was bc free money makes everyone loose their minds (or behave rationally as you could also argue) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @GrantWahl: Just now: Security guard refusing to let me into the stadium for USA-Wales. “You have to change your shirt. It’s not allowed… — PolitiTweet.org

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Also we’re going to ignore the part where I confidently predict that Chapek will be fine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Mostly this is guys talking about how sexy George Clooney is. But also at 25.10 @goldman lays out a path for Elon to salvage his self-made mess: Buy back his debt at 50% discount, run bare-bones Twitter that matches revenue, which will also be down 50%. https://t.co/2TfCWEnAMR — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@can It is pretty funny on my tl. But to be fair it’s a surprise and surprises are fun to tweet about and unlike some other stuff it doesn’t feel existential. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @sherman4949: There was good reason for Bob Chapek to be angry with the way Iger handled passing the torch, as I wrote about earlier thi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jessicalessin Right but you can’t praise Iger for his leadership and then say the successor problem is the company’s fault. — PolitiTweet.org

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@felixsalmon @Lucas_Shaw Yes this is why the flip answer to artists who complain about streaming economics is “go on tour.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway here’s Iger in September looking very comfortable in retirement and convincingly explaining why Big Media cos like Disney are facing real issues. https://t.co/W2dXzF6hgp — PolitiTweet.org

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PS everyone is too polite to say this but this is the second time Iger and his board have decided the guy they picked to replace Iger wasn’t good enough to replace Iger. Which makes it an Iger problem. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

But now he has another mess: Wall Street has soured on the streaming pivot he launched to much fanfare, and the looming recession could strain both his ad and consumer businesses. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

The wised-up-but-never-really-plausible theory was that Iger saw the pandemic shutting down China and bailed in Feb 2020 so he wouldn’t have to deal with the mess. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @brooksbarnesNYT: Big Disney News: The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that Robert A. Iger is returning to lead Disney a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jpmarcum @MikeIsaac And yet here you are, seeing it — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@jpmarcum @MikeIsaac Who said I was optimistic? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @Lucas_Shaw: I did my best to make sense of the Taylor Swift situation. https://t.co/CSrgOy2TEU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@backlon @reckless @RecklessPatel I’ve never seen that before! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@gavinpurcell Hammered first 3 eps of white lotus this week and was very pleased with that. Now will switch to weekly consumption and will be fine with that too. Yay good content! — PolitiTweet.org