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Peter Baker's top 10 nearest neighbors are all journalists — every single one, with no other subcategory represented in the set. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; scores across the top 10 run from 0.99 down to 0.99 in a tight band, which is the defining feature of a flat shape.
David Frum leads at 0.99, followed by Michael S. Schmidt at 0.99, Robert Costa at 0.99, Ashley Parker at 0.99, and Betsy Woodruff Swan at 0.99. The remaining five — Sam Stein, Josh Dawsey, David Fahrenthold, Jonathan Swan, and Jeffrey Toobin — cluster between 0.99 and 0.99, with no meaningful gap separating any of them. The spread across all ten is less than 0.007, which means no single neighbor stands out as a dominant pull; the audience shape is essentially uniform across the group.
The composition is pure political journalism: White House correspondents, investigative reporters, and political beat writers drawn from major national outlets. No politicians, government officials, authors, or other subcategories appear anywhere in the top 10. The wider graph may show cross-kind neighbors, but within this set, the audience that follows Peter Baker maps almost perfectly onto the audience that follows other Washington-focused journalists.
This flat, same-kind cluster indicates an audience with a narrow, well-defined interest in political reporting rather than a broader media or commentary diet.
