{"id":1702466,"date":"2022-10-19T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702466"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:03:17","slug":"voters-see-mainstream-media-as-top-threat-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-see-mainstream-media-as-top-threat-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters See Mainstream Media as Top &#8220;Threat to Democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoters-see-mainstream-media-as-top-threat-to-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Most voters believe \u201cthe mainstream media\u201d is a threat to democracy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/18\/upshot\/times-siena-poll-toplines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the latest New York Times\/Siena poll.<\/p>\n<p>Voters were asked whether they believe \u201cAmerican democracy is currently under threat\u201d or the opposite. Then voters who responded in the affirmative were asked where the blame lies.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-one percent of voters told pollsters they think democracy is in danger. Of those respondents, 84 percent said the mainstream media is contributing to the political system\u2019s peril.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-nine percent of those voters said the media is a \u201cmajor threat to democracy,\u201d while 25 percent said it is a \u201cminor threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voters for both parties came out in high numbers against the media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/18\/upshot\/times-siena-poll-registered-voters-crosstabs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the detailed breakdown. The fourth estate poses no threat to democracy whatsoever in the opinion of only 29 percent of Democrats, 3 percent of Republicans and 14 percent of independent voters.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Republicans also named Democrats, President Joe Biden, and mail voting as major threats. On the flipside, over 50 percent of Democrats said major threats included Republicans and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Half of Republicans named the federal government as a major threat, while Democrats focused their ire on the Supreme Court and Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen percent of voters who said democracy was under threat also said we would \u201cneed to go outside the law\u201d to get it back on track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only 11 percent of those said civil war or other violence was necessary, while most either refused to elaborate or seemed to backpedal, saying laws and processes could be improved \u201cwithin the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, any alleged threat to democracy is apparently a low priority for voters. Only 7 percent told pollsters \u201cthe state of democracy\u201d is the most important issue facing the U.S. today. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/01\/biden-says-future-elections-will-be-set-up-if-voting-rights-bill-doesnt-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election integrity<\/a> was even less of a concern, being a top issue with 1 percent of voters.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the economy and inflation took first place with most voters across party lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most voters believe \u201cthe mainstream media\u201d is a threat to democracy, according to the latest New York Times\/Siena poll. Voters were asked whether they believe \u201cAmerican democracy is currently under threat\u201d or the opposite. Then voters who responded in the affirmative were asked where the blame lies. Seventy-one percent of voters told pollsters they think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}