Friday looks like a fairly typical day, with The Kelly File winning best hour and Hannity best day overall. Following The Kelly File was Greta, Hannity, The Five, and The Ed Show:
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Raw data here: 2014-12-05-ShowStats.csv, 2014-12-05 Schedule.csv
So I was singing “Hannity” to the tune of “Marian The Librarian” today, given his clean sweep of both best hour and best day Thursday. Hannity was followed closely by The Kelly File, and not so closely by the rest:
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Meanwhile, in terms of overall mentions during the day, it’s clear that the dust-up over Joe Scarborough’s comments on media coverage of Ferguson is coming to an end; Morning Joe was in 4th place for mentions throughout the day after being in the top spot for a while.
Raw data: 2014-12-04-ShowStats.csv
Wednesday saw the reaction to the Eric Garner death grand jury drive commentary on Twitter, and the primary beneficiary of that was Anderson Cooper’s show, AC360. This tweet of theirs generated almost a 1000 retweets yesterday:
This is the racial makeup of the #grandjury that declined to indict in the #EricGarner case pic.twitter.com/CAzTWAgoSG
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) December 3, 2014
In addition, Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough received a series of critical tweets from MSNBC analyst Lisa Bloom, and those tweets were retweeted sufficiently to help propel Morning Joe to the best-day winner. Here is the most retweeted tweet about Morning Joe yesterday:
.@JoeNBC No one has said Mike Brown was a hero. What we have said was that we don’t give the death penalty to shoplifting teens.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 2, 2014
Here are the top 30 “best hour” shows yesterday:
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Raw data: 2014-12-03-ShowStats.csv
The debate over Morning Joe continued on Tuesday, brining Scarborough a large volume of mentions on Twitter. If you look at the top 6 shows by hour, you see that reflected as well; in order, the shows are Kelly, Hannity, The Five (with its hosts), and then each of the three hours of Morning Joe:
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Raw data here: 2014-12-02-ShowStats.csv
Here’s the day by day, network by network count of mentions during November:
You can see that during the elections Fox News did better than the other networks, while in the aftermath of the Ferguson grand jury decision CNN did better.
Raw data: 2014 11 Mentions By Day By Network.csv
R code to produce chart: loadMentions.R and plotMentions.R