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The top 10 neighbors for Howard Fineman compress into a narrow band — scores running from 0.976 down to 0.969 — with no single neighbor pulling away from the pack and no structural outlier.
Eight of the ten neighbors are fellow Journalists: John Heilemann (0.976), Matthew Miller (0.975), Andrea Mitchell (0.974), Joe Scarborough (0.974), Stephanie Ruhle (0.973), Ari Melber (0.972), John Harwood (0.972), and Kasie Hunt (0.971). The remaining two break from that subcategory: Norm Eisen (0.969) is classified as a Government Official, and Sally Yates (0.969) as a Politician. Both sit at the lower end of the band, but the gap separating them from the journalists above is minimal — less than a point across the entire top 10.
The shape is flat and same-kind: the audience that follows Fineman maps almost entirely onto the audience that follows other political journalists, with a narrow extension into government and legal figures. No TV Shows, Websites, or non-journalist media channels appear in the top 10, though the wider graph may tell a different story.
This tight, journalist-dominated cluster suggests an audience defined by a specific media diet rather than by any single personality or platform.
