CNN buries the lede six feet under

The corporations are working from their own script...

They're pursuing the narrative that the corporate execs prefer--and it aint what Obama's sellin'.

52% out of 100% is a "slight majority". However, the headline implies it is like 52-48 instead of 52-36. Just another example of how the media tries to use polls to fit their narratives even when those polls disprove their narratives. How about this headline: Just 36% disapprove of Obama's stance on Iran. In a related item, the same number of respondents declare themselves to be conservatives.

At the risk of being overbearing, I'm going to repeat my comment from an earlier post, The media's almost comical Obama disconnect, here:

"Behold your press corps."
Indeed. Let's behold their "objectivity" and "even-handedness" -- especially CNN's - by revisiting a MMFA article by Eric's cohort Jamison Foser from November 2005:

Bush poll numbers keep dropping; media figures keep predicting "rebound"
Even as poll after poll shows growing public disapproval - and distrust -- of President Bush, many reporters and pundits seem to retain an unshakable confidence that a Bush rebound is just around the corner. As we noted nearly two months ago:

While President Bush's approval ratings plummet amid widespread dissatisfaction with his handling of Hurricane Katrina, many news outlets seem to be doing their best to try to rebuild his reputation -- making false claims that his poll numbers are improving; baselessly asserting that Bush has again "risen to the occasion"; giving him undeserved credit for Katrina recovery efforts; and downplaying his paralysis in the face of the disaster.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Suzanne Malveaux falsely suggested at the beginning of the week that Bush's poll numbers were improving, with Blitzer excitedly exclaiming, "Mr. Bush's approval rating is up -- up! -- to 46 percent." But in order to claim that Bush's approval rating is increasing, Blitzer compared polls conducted by different news organizations using different methodologies -- a dubious comparison, at best, particularly in light of the fact that every recent poll has shown dismal results for Bush. As the week continued, it became increasingly clear that the rosy picture painted by Blitzer and Malveaux wasn't based in reality; new polls by Fox News, CBS/New York Times, and NBC/Wall Street Journal, among others, all showed poor results for Bush.

And from Think Progress in May 2006:

New Poll Finds Bush Approval Stuck In Mid-30s, CNN Calls It ‘A Bounce’
CNN just reported that President Bush’s new job approval rating is at 36 percent, suggesting it was “a bounce for President Bush.”

But this isn’t a bounce. Bush’s early May approval rating was 34 percent. Each poll has an error of +/-3 points, meaning Bush’s numbers haven’t changed at all.

Is the media really this desperate for Bush’s approval rating to rebound?

There was a period of about two years during Bush's second term when, even as he continued to lose popularity, the press corps remained kneeling in front of him, imagining every hiccup or cough or twitch as a sign that his flaccid poll was about to firm up. The press was like a hungry submissive lover intent on servicing his/her coked-up, whiskey-impaired master, deflecting his failures and squirming in anticipation at the idea of him regaining his dominance, thus perversely validating their own humiliating subordination.
Now, with Obama, the media fantasy is EPIC FAIL. That, however, is merely the prerequisite to their actual fantasy; the ascendance of another Republican authority figure -- no matter how inferior the actual being -- in order for them to feel comfortable enough to put the choke collar back on, drop to their kness and satisfy their twisted id.

I thought the media liked popular people. When BushieCo achieved the astounding 90 percentile numbers after 9/11, they were practically putting up the banners with him.

What scares them about the Obama story? The will of the people?

With the MSM, if there's no drama, there's no $$. So just dig & dig and look for a lede related to drama. That is what you are seeing here. Yawn ... The managing editors in the press really need to find something of interest and impact for these reporters to do ...

It would be nice if MMFA was as diligent in their own reporting as they are in holding others accountable. A 65% percent approval rating is quite good of course, but it's not extraordinary as written by Eric Boehlert. In fact, It's about on par with the average approval ratings at this point in time of the last 9 Presidents.

Eye popping? Extraordinary? Come on Eric...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118928/obama-approval-compares-favorably-prior-presidents.aspx

This is how Cokie's Law is applied by the corporate media to shift public perception.