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Mark Bittman's top 10 neighbors are overwhelmingly journalists — seven of the ten, spanning a tight similarity band from 0.98 to 0.99 — despite Bittman's own subcategory being Authors. Similarity here measures audience composition overlap, not thematic kinship; a score of 0.989 means the two audiences look structurally alike, not that the entities are interchangeable.
Jane Mayer leads at 0.989, followed closely by Frank Bruni (0.9879) and Michael Pollan (0.9865) — the latter two the only fellow Authors in the set. Jay Rosen (0.9861), Ronan Farrow (0.9839), Nicholas Kristof (0.9836), Brian Stelter (0.9822), Rukmini Callimachi (0.9814), and Olivia Nuzzi (0.9807) round out the journalist cluster. The one outlier is Andy Borowitz (Comedians, 0.9815), sitting inside the band without disrupting its character. The scores compress into a range of less than 0.009 across all ten neighbors — a flat distribution with no single dominant pull.
The overall picture is an audience shaped primarily by journalism-adjacent consumption, with the Author neighbors and the lone Comedian fitting inside the same narrow band rather than forming any distinct secondary cluster.
