Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-12-05
Eric Garner and the police were the top topics in Cable News Twitter on Friday, by far:
Raw data here: 2014-12-05-WordStats.csv and 2014-12-05-TagStats.csv
Eric Garner and the police were the top topics in Cable News Twitter on Friday, by far:
Raw data here: 2014-12-05-WordStats.csv and 2014-12-05-TagStats.csv
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:
Raw data here: 2014-12-05-ShowStats.csv, 2014-12-05 Schedule.csv
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
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:
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
Different day, different city, same story: The return of no indictment in the killing of Eric Garner drove the conversation on Cable News Twitter yesterday.
Raw data for the day: 2014-12-03-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-03-WordStats.csv