Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-11

Mother’s day, #Bringbackourgirls, Benghazi, and Donald Sterling.  Sunday was all over the board in Cable News Twitter…

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-10

The tea leaves are murky about Saturday, with #Iran, #Powergrid, and #emp being top issue specific tags.  EMP is electromagnetic pulse, and the conversation is about the threat to our powergrid.  I’m not sure why this topic pulsed to the top on Saturday, or what’s powering it, but the topic seems electric.

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-09

There was no real dominating topic in Cable News on Friday, but Benghazi managed to move back ahead of BringBackOrGirls as the wrangling over the make up of the committee managed generate more buzz than the slow news out of Nigeria.

Larry Wilmore, who will take over Stephen Colbert’s 11:30pm slot next year, managed to creep into the top words for the day…

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-08

The Nigerian school girls topic was the top trender in cable news, but it lost a little energy on Thursday.  Benghazi continues at a low boil, but until there’s new news I don’t expect it to boil over again.  Both of these topics, like the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, suffer from a much longer arc that can hold the attention of the 24/7 news cycle.  Will one of them pop back up on news? Or will some new excitement come along?

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Cable News Trending Topics for 2014-05-07

The story of the kidnapped Nigerian school girls continued to dominate the topics in cable news Twitter on Wednesday.  News about Benghazi investigations registered highly as well.

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