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Kevin Draper
kevindraper
Reporter at the New York Times

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ESPN is actually in just fewer than 90 million homes at this point! Read more

This is how TV ratings work. A very small amount of the households in the country have little boxes that measure everything they watch. If you don’t have one of those little boxes, what you watch (or don’t) has no impact on ratings. Read more

Heh, there is a reason I took the much easier newser post and Diana did not. Read more

The crazy thing here only somewhere around 4,000–5,000 of the 5.5 million people that live in the Tampa Bay Area are members of Nielsen households that determine the ratings, meaning that 99.9% (literally) of the Tampa Bay population who have nothing to do with the ratings can’t go to a watch party because NBC wants Read more

You cannot be trusted to determine whether you smell bad or not. Read more

Yes you are wrong and clearly have never read a quote from Kerr or Curry. Read more

We’d argue about it for days and then nothing would ever get produced and it’d die. Read more

The editing seems very, very poor, which does not bode well long-term. Then again, I shudder to think what Deadspin’s editing looked like in its first week, so... Read more

Wait really? This opens up an intriguing financial opportunity for me... Read more

It’s pretty easy because it happens so frequently that you have to quickly learn to let it roll off your back or you won’t last very long. I relieve whatever annoyance or anger I have by wailing on like one out of every 200 bad commenters and telling them they’re dumb. Perhaps not the most mature approach, but it Read more

You should prrrrrrrrrrobably do some research before you call somebody else out for being wrong! Read more

Yes, I should have clarified that nobody is facing criminal penalties (because they can’t) from the SEC charges outlined above. Read more