Sam Smith - Every day I scan one to two thousand headlines on Feedly, from over 100 sources regarded as competent. I have become curious why it is so hard to find news about good people, so as a project last evening, I broke some 600 headlines from earlier in in the day down by the individual names that were in them. What I found was that 49% cited show business characters - 19% professional ones, and 25% Donald Trump. Brett Kavanauh followed with 12%, Members of Congress and journalists at 8% each and sports at 6%. Potential Democratic presidential candidates came in at 2% (Warren and Bloomberg) and Obama and George Bush each got one mention. As did one leader of a non-profit organization
| ENTERTAINMENT | 55 | 25% |
| TRUMP | 42 | 19% |
| KAVANAUGH | 26 | 12% |
| CONGRESS | 17 | 8% |
| JOURNALISTS | 17 | 8% |
| SPORTS | 14 | 6% |
| TRUMP OFFICIALS | 12 | 5% |
| STATE OFFICIALS | 6 | 3% |
| CRIMINALS | 6 | 3% |
| DEMO CANDIDATES | 4 | 2% |
| BUSINESS | 4 | 2% |
| TRUMP FAMILY | 4 | 2% |
| CRIMINALS | 3 | 1% |
| MICHAEL PENCE | 2 | 1% |
| CITIZENS | 2 | 1% |
| KAVANAUGH ACCUSER | 2 | 1% |
| WRITERS | 1 | 0% |
| PYSCHOLOGIST | 1 | 0% |
| NON PROFIT LEADER | 1 | 0% |
| GEORGE BUSH | 1 | 0% |
| OBAMA | 1 | 0% |
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