Using the latest Obama polling information, we discuss our preference for the Left leaning news portal, Memeorandum.

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Poll: Obama worst president since WWII  —  A plurality of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, a new poll says.  —  According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 33 percent of voters think the current president is the worst since 1945.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Mediaite, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's …, Real Clear Politics and National Review

Editor’s notes:  One of the several news portals I use in my daily reporting/commentary,  is Memeorandum.  It is a Left leaning concern,  but news and lede stories are what they are and Memeorandum is a valued source for headline news items,  for that reason.  http://www.memeorandum.com/

Memeorandum is unique in that it includes those sites that have picked up a given story.  Weasel Zippers,  Drudge,  The Blaze,  The Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Washington Beacon, The Daily Beast,  and others,  do not include this information and important information,  it is. 

Here is why.  It gives me,  as an editor/news research journalist,  an idea of what other news agencies are doing with a given story.  In the case of the story,  above,  you can see that only CNN picked up this story (not NBC, CBS, ABC, MSMBC, HLN) .  The NY Times took a pass on this story as well. 

The “discussion” information,  can shed light on the degree of  partisanship a story generates,  which news outlets may be involved in a cover-up of sorts,  how many Americans have been exposed to a given story,   and,  the political media divide of this nation. 

Some stories will have 20-30 sources,  named in the discussion;  others will have very few sources. 

Let me give you an example as to how this work,  as you add Memeorandum.com to your blogroll.

Example:  Let’s say the story of  Zimmerman’s attack on Trevor Martin saw 30 outlets picking up that story,  many of them major news broadcasters and publishers.  By contrast,  a second lede,  on Memeorandum,  appearing the same day and on the same page as the Zimmerman story,  might be an account documenting a federal courts concern of Obama standing in violation of federal law as concerns his abuse of ObamaCare,  a story – in my imagined example – that shows only four outlets picking up the story,  all minor players in the world of news. 

Conclusion?  An analyst could conclude that the Compliant/Progressive Media is using the Zimmerman story as cover for the Obama story.  Now,  I am not asking for agreement, here,  merely illustrating how the Memeorandum site gives the thoughtful reader,  additional “news” that is not found anywhere else. 

While much of the major media,  did not pick up the story at top of this post,  still,  CNN,  the WaPost and Mediaite are left leaning outlets.  We might conclude very negative reasons for this lack of coverage,  yet,  we cannot assert a full-scale partisan cover-up.  The three outlets picking up this story are among the Left leaning cabal's biggest names.