Trending Topics in Cable News for Thursday, July 24, 2014 — Israel

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-07-24

The conversation on Thursday focused on Israel, revealing two interesting things: the lack of news on Malaysia Airlines’ plane and passengers has started to quiet that topic and the focus in the mid-east has shifted from Gaza to Israel.  It’s also interesting that Hannity’s show yesterday got the best engagement, and it was notable for his hectoring a guest about Hamas. But Hamas barely appears in the top words list.

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Trending Topics in Cable News for Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-07-23

After 1 Direction preempted the Internet yesterday, we’re back to talking about the Malaysia Airlines crash and Israel/Gaza.

Top Shows for the day:

Category Mentions Show
Most Mentions During Hour 2394 Fox News: Hannity
Most Mentions During Day 11324 CNN: Anderson Cooper 360

Overall ratings by network

Network Tweet Count Unique Tweeters Reach Male Female
CNN 51377 35901 355870103 53 % 47 %
Fox News 40208 19013 206406992 62 % 38 %
MSNBC 31625 13581 138712351 55 % 45 %
Comedy Central 6009 4948 21935072 59 % 41 %
HBO 4145 2066 9418274 62 % 38 %
Al Jazeera 2839 2237 5489520 58 % 42 %
HLN 1965 1153 12224903 39 % 61 %

Most popular hastags

Hashtag Count
#mh17 6658
#tcot 4580
#lnyhbt 3626
#blackfish 2964
#flipadistrict 1846
#p2 1802
#pjnet 1795
#uniteblue 1755
#teaparty 1721
#gaza 1705

Tag Cloud across all shows

#1yearofbse #2a #5things #ac360 #amsterdam #askdon #batmanday #blackfish #bordercrisis #breaking #bringbackourgirls #campliberty #cavuto #ccot #cir #cnn #ctot #dailyshow #donothingdave #edshow #emptythetanks #ericgarner #faa #fflyright #flipadistrict #foxnews #gaza #gazaunderattack #gop #hamas #hannity #hardball #inners #iran #iraq #irs #irsemailexcuses #isis #israel #israelunderfire #jamesesreal #kellyfile #lastword #libcrib #lnyhbt #maddow #maliki #mh17 #milestones #morningjoe #msnbc #mtp #nationalhotdogday #ncpol #netherlands #newday #news #nra #obama #obamacare #ocra #orca #oreillyfactor #outnumbered #p2 #pdmfnb #pjnet #realtime #redeye #rednationrising #reiders #retirereichert #russia #seaworld #sgp #shmoneydance #sisterpatriots #storm4arturo #taiwan #tcot #tdsbreakingnews #teamedshow #teaparty #tgdn #thefive #tlot #tntweeters #tortureworld #tweet4taiji #txpolitics #ukraine #un #uniteblue #uniteright #usa #vasurge #vote #wa8 #waar #wiunion

 

Word Cloud across all shows

airport america american another back best bless border breaking carrying children christians cnn co coverage crash day days dead dogs eindhoven first gaza go god going good gop great hamas help home house htt iraq isis israel israeli journey just kill know life like live love make man many media military moving need netherlands never new news next now obama one part people plane planes please president really remains report right russia saw say says see shot show still stop support syria take thank think time today tonight two us usa victims want wants war watch welcoming will words world

Trending Topics in Cable News, July 22, 2014 – #JamesEsReal & #1YearOfBSE

Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-07-22

An interesting day in Twitter with hashtags that you don’t normally find in US cable news shows.  First is #jamesesreal, which is for newly signed Real Madrid soccer player James Rodriguez. Second is #1yearofbse, which is for the one year anniversary of the band 1 Direction’s “Best Song Ever” song.

Both of these hashtags were “hijacked” by people protesting the Israeli bombing of Gaza, which filled Twitter with pictures of mangled children.

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