Garner killing dominates Cable News Twitter Topics on Thursday, 12/4/14

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-04

Continuing discussion over the grand jury’s no bill in the case of Eric Garner and the protests that generated dominated cable news Twitter on Thursday.  There were ongoing conversation on other topics, as well, but nothing that matched the intensity of the Garner conversation.

Raw data: 2014-12-04-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-04-WordStats.csv

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Hannity sweeps Cable News Twitter on Thursday, 12/4/14

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

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