Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Btw tried something new this week: The email version of this column has (short) bonus stories about the NBA, Warner Bros Discovery and Netflix. Like the web version, it’s all free. You can get it at https://t.co/FdeWeXcbrb — PolitiTweet.org

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One person who is quiet is Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis. I asked to talk to him about his client’s next move: “He doesn’t want to talk to anybody right now. He’s very, very, very busy and he feels like he has nothing else to say.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex Jones and Infowars aren’t going anywhere for now. They turned last week’s Sandy Hook verdict into a sales promotion. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: News in @ReliableSources: @therecount is exploring a sale, I'm told. https://t.co/NvjiTy7Xx7 https://t.co/wmlBaUiiZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @goldman: "You have to develop a sort of a moral and professional compass about how willing you are to listen to other people and take r… — PolitiTweet.org

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@goldman Yeah. I’ve been thinking about this a lot since March 2020. Easy to point out all the problems with overconfident smart guys (almost always guys) straying out of their lanes but also interesting to think about smart outsiders with new POVs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sherman4949 @om Yup he owns ads and that’s the news so logical but also interesting as you note — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SaraMorrison: The raccoon is Meta, the cotton candy is GIPHY, and the pond is the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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Last up: This is the last quarter Netflix is going to predict how many subscribers it is going to add (or lose). It wants investors to focus on revenue, which its trying to boost with ads and password sharing crackdown. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also some shade for Warner and everyone else putting the breaks on streaming: “some raising prices for their streaming services, some reigning in content spending, and some retrenching around traditional operating models which may dilute their direct-to-consumer offering.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Also gonna keep making lots of movies and not putting them in theaters. Example: Purple Hearts, a movie you haven’t heard of and critics hated, was a huge hit for them. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a weird way to defend that tho: Google Trends chart comparing Dahmer vs Amazon and HBO’s mega shows: https://t.co/OBn5H5e40j — PolitiTweet.org

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For instance, it’s going to keep dropping shows all at once because it thinks its subscribers - not bloggers or podcasters or people at competitors - like that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big takeaway from the Netflix earnings letter is that Netflix has heard all of the things you want it to change and it’s not going to do most of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Netflix had very good earnings. By old streaming standards, at least. Added 2.4 million subs vs 1 million forecast. Stock is up 10%. Good thing they listened to everyone’s advice! — PolitiTweet.org

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Netflix has a big advertising event in NYC tonight so it would be awkward if they have lousy earnings. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Jessicalessin: And now we have a price on for the tech bounties that Facebook was paying media companies. Holy moly. That's a lot of ed… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pick your POV: Either this is small ball - undoing a $400 million deal for a GIF library doesn’t really derail a $400 billion company - or a sign that regulators aren’t going to let Meta buy anything again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel I can’t like this so I hope Elon adds a downrank feature as part of the SuperApp — PolitiTweet.org

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@oliverdarcy @ReliableSources @semaforben Like it’s a signal — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: After this item ran in @ReliableSources, I learned that @semaforben is scheduled to appear on "Morning Joe" in the 7am hou… — PolitiTweet.org

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Omg alex Jones but I’m still not paying for Twitter blue — PolitiTweet.org

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Latter, most current role is co-hosting a show “whose goal is to deconstruct the news media to reveal slanted stories and the reasoning for slanted or misleading reporting.” https://t.co/wsYsbTKvPC Last week he was talking to Jones about meat. — PolitiTweet.org

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That guy beaming in to Adam Jones’ show last week, post-Sandy Hook verdict? That’s Adam Curry, and depending on your age and predilection for conspiracy peddling, you may know him as an: Early MTV VJ Early podcast guy Guy who podcasts about conspiracies and talks to Alex Jones. https://t.co/hc28iirFqb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankrebecca: "Meta isn’t happy that a highly-polarized digital media landscape that incentivizes content production above all else has… — PolitiTweet.org

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ESPN and Turner together pay ~ $2.5 billion for NBA rights. Industry folks expect that price tag to jump to $7 or $8 billion. That money has to come from somewhere… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SG: Worst NYT Vows ever. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidJeans2: Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, which has $7B for Web3 investments, held a fundraiser for Bronx congressman Ritchie Torre… — PolitiTweet.org

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All the streamers say they don’t want to buy media companies with big TV operations, which are declining but throw off a lot of cash. Suggestion I’ve heard floated: Spin off the TV stuff to PE guys, who love declining cash machines. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also: Metaverse reporting is a risky business. https://t.co/uhUkP9IfIu — PolitiTweet.org