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James Comey's top 10 nearest audience neighbors are dominated by journalists — seven of the ten — with no fellow Government Officials appearing in the top 10 at all.
The shape here is flat: similarity scores run from 0.99 down to 0.98, a band so compressed that no single neighbor stands out structurally. The closest match is Natasha Bertrand at 0.99, followed by Sally Yates at 0.99 and Asha Rangappa at 0.99 — scores so tightly grouped that the ranking itself carries little weight. The remaining journalists in the cluster — Katy Tur (0.99), Hallie Jackson (0.98), Philip Rucker (0.98), Kurt Eichenwald (0.98), and Jim Acosta (0.98) — reinforce a consistent pattern: the audience that follows Comey looks almost identical to the audience that follows political beat reporters and cable news correspondents. The two non-journalist neighbors — politicians Sally Yates and George Conway (0.98) — share a profile as figures who became prominent through legal and political opposition, and academic Seth Abramson (0.98) rounds out the cluster. No other Government Officials appear in the top 10.
The overall picture is an audience defined almost entirely by political journalism consumption, with no meaningful separation between any of the ten neighbors.
