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:

click to enlarge

Raw data: 2014-12-03-ShowStats.csv

Continue reading →

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:

click to enlarge

Raw data here: 2014-12-02-ShowStats.csv

Continue reading →