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The top 10 neighbors for David French span five distinct subcategories — Professionals, Journalists, Politicians, Academics, and Directors — with scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.95 down to 0.93, the hallmark of a flat shape.
Frank Luntz (0.95) and Jonah Goldberg (0.95) sit at the top, separated by less than 0.001. French is himself a Journalist, and Goldberg is the only fellow Journalist in the top 10 — the rest of the set is cross-kind. Three Politicians follow: Justin Amash (0.94), Evan McMullin (0.93), and Mitt Romney (0.93). Two Academics appear — Larry Sabato (0.93) and, tied at 0.91, Heather Cox Richardson — alongside Ken Burns (0.93) as the lone Director, Chris Krebs (0.93) as a Government Official, and The Bulwark (0.93) as the only non-person entity, a Magazine. The dominant pattern is cross-kind: politicians, academics, and institutional media outlets whose audiences look compositionally similar to French's, rather than other journalists. The tight score compression means no single neighbor pulls away from the pack — the audience shape is consistent across a genuinely mixed set of entity types.
That consistency across subcategories suggests an audience defined less by any one content category than by a shared orientation toward political commentary from outside conventional partisan lines.
