Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@unclegrambo Oh I totally (mostly) get the economics. It’s just that I assume anything good on tv will generate *some* related content. And it’s almost-total absence is really striking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@phkeane Definitely don’t need to read. It’s a gorgeous, violent, international drug/cartel/mafia story. Can lean back and not think too much. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Which leaves me with the JV team. And all I want to say about the JV team is that writing recaps of not-very-popular Amazon shows must be dispiriting work. — PolitiTweet.org

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ZeroZeroZero is my new "like it so much I want to read recaps of the thing I've just seen". But the internet tells me I'm in the minority, bc the Real Recappers at Vanity Fair, NYT, Vulture etc won't touch it. https://t.co/32RytBgn6Y — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshelman @jonathanglick @ballmatthew @awilkinson Giving George Lucas credit for owning (almost) all of his Star Wars movies, even if he couldn't figure out what to do with them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gavinpurcell @joshelman @jonathanglick Yup. And the not-wanting-to-run-a-business idea is very common. See also: Taylor Swift. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshelman @jonathanglick Markets! Heh. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanglick @joshelman Yeah but they're not making anything without checks - usually recurring ones - from a supplier/employer. Rogan owned and ran his own factory. Only thing he didn't have control of was distribution. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanglick @joshelman sort of? difference is that those producers/writers were never going to run their own business - they were always going to get paid by a traditional network, or a netflix, or whatever. Rogan is trading a business he runs to working for someone else (more or less) — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshelman Right. But, again, usually the talent doesn't have the background to understand what they're giving up. This is different. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@joshelman Is it possible that Joe Rogan has no idea what he's doing and gave up huge upside to Spotify in return for guaranteed $ Sure! But... Joe Rogan has been building and operating his own business for several years. Guessing he has a *very* good idea of the pros/cons in this trade. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zamosta One thing that is clear tho: The ones self-taping thought the video made them look *good* and that sharing it was a bright idea. — PolitiTweet.org

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@zamosta I’ve been thinking about that compilation for the last day. Trying to guess what percent of those people are ill vs stupid vs having a moment they’d like back. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aweissman @phkeane It’s dumb but I don’t mind it because it’s not it’s a euphemism that debases the original. But “book” or “song” or “movie” all mean something and ‘tent just means “I don’t care about these things enough to identify them.l — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

One of my regrets is the number of times I’ve said or written the word “content”. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @MattGarrahan: Tomorrow's New York Times front page. The names of a thousand Covid victims - one per cent of the 100,000 Americans who h… — PolitiTweet.org

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Ps as a consumer perfectly happy to keep Disney+ for now since Verizon is paying for it. Will be interesting next couple years as Disney, hbo max, Apple TV+ start asking me to pay out of pocket for this stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thoroughly imprecise household tv winventory: Hulu (bobs burgers, last dance via ESPN); netflix (lots of stuff including @pattonoswalt’s new special, season 1 of stranger things (new to them)); hbo now (die hard 2); Amazon (zero zero zero). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Oh hi. For those who care: kids are 10, 11. They love all the core Disney brands, but have seen all the Pixar, Star Wars, marvel movies multiple times. They tell me they still use Disney+ to watch Simpsons, but infrequently. — PolitiTweet.org

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We haven’t watched Disney+ in a long time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobGlaser Ah, well, I don’t expect you to listen. But if you did you’d find the part where I ask if the company can avoid layoffs even though they’re making great journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BGrueskin: It’s always interesting when bullies like McEnany get called out on their shtick, as Jeff Mason (Reuters’ WH correspondent)… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mat: The Information Apocalypse Is Already Here, And Reality Is Losing https://t.co/p4JoO9qmny via @CraigSilverman — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew @modestproposal1 you're making an argument for hbo max as an hbo churn reducer. different than signing up for hbo max after years of deciding you didn't want hbo. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew @modestproposal1 huh? — PolitiTweet.org

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@markjmessmer (psst WFH is hard when you have kids, too. guessing it has drawbacks at all stages of life) — PolitiTweet.org

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While I'm at it: Every CEO who announces that the company is WFH-forward should have to spend one week a month living in the same square footage of his lowest-paid WFH'er. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good thread. Also: Open office plans and long commutes may look pretty good to a lot of people after a few more months of working on the kitchen table. Also: my WFH electric bill is going to be brutal this summer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@edmundlee @davidcho operated at a loss because it was spending money trying to grow the biz; lpj was the source of that funding. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pastor_dave18 Yup! See also: John Wick. — PolitiTweet.org