Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-02
It’s Benghazi, dude, as the top cable news topic on Twitter, Friday. Looks like Fox is going to milk this one for all it’s worth…
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Thursday, May 1, 2014 — Grin and Baier It
Former White House staffer Tommy Vietor’s appearance on Special Report with Bret Baier drove the show’s mentions quite high, and gave Baier the best day and best hour on Twitter. Nothing sells on TV like outrage. Well, maybe sex. Which Fox tries to have too, according to Jon Stewart.
Trending Topics in Cable News Twitter for Thursday, May 1, 2014. Dude!
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-01
Former White House staffer Tommy Vietor was grilled on Fox News by Bret Baier about the new Benghazi emails, and his comments and use of the word “Dude” set the conservative Twitter ablaze. Or afox.
Cable News was So Fetch on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 (Trending Topics on Twitter)
Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-04-30
Some days cable news is like a teenage boy. Yesterday, it was a teenage girl (or at least memories of being one), with tags related to “Mean Girls'” 10th anniversary taking second, sixth, and seventh place. Had they been all one hashtag, they would have dominated all other tags.
Oh yeah, Benghazi. Which brings to mind the following quote from the movie: “Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.”
Cable News Twitter Ratings for Wednesday, April 30, 2014
April ended on a strong day for The Ed Show, breaking the 2K mentions during its broadcast. Only E! News managed to come close, and they’re kind of in a different category of news.
Fox News’ new “Outnumbered” has managed to swing is mentions even more strongly male, making it clear that, whatever the hopes were that the show would be a female friendly hour, it has turned out the opposite.