{"id":1704096,"date":"2022-10-20T12:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704096"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:05:54","slug":"nyt-siena-poll-59-of-voters-think-msm-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-siena-poll-59-of-voters-think-msm-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT\/Siena Poll: 59% Of Voters Think Msm Is a \u201cMajor Threat\u201d to Democracy"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnyt-siena-poll-59-of-voters-think-msm-is-a-major-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=1704096&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>Something tells me that the New York Times wasn\u2019t pleased by the results they got when they asked this question.<\/p>\n<p>Is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/18\/upshot\/times-siena-poll-toplines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mainstream media a major threat, a minor threat, or not a threat to democracy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-504578\" src=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.26.48-PM-730x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.26.48-PM-730x163.png 730w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.26.48-PM-1110x247-1.png 1110w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.26.48-PM.png 1974w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fully 84% of registered voters named the Mainstream Media as a threat to Democracy<\/strong>. <strong>Nearly 60% of voters called the MSM a \u201cmajor threat.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is among voters who think that Democracy is under threat at all, which amounts to 71% of the people in the poll. If people don\u2019t think democracy is not under threat (29% of poll respondents) they were not asked this question.<\/p>\n<p>No other issue or group even came close to being seen as this great a threat to the union.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of relentlessly pounding the issue of democracy being under threat the public has come to agree with the liberals and the MSM: yep! Our democracy is under threat and it is you guys in particular who are the most responsible.<\/p>\n<p>As the Washington Post would say, \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness.\u201d Only the public thinks the darkness is spread by the MSM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nearly 60 percent see mainstream media as a threat to democracy: poll <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRL3uF3yJi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/TRL3uF3yJi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r1AnHeuf30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/r1AnHeuf30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1583089668786368512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Left has poured countless dollars and endless hours of propaganda into convincing Americans that Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans, and anybody who would prefer their children to remain unmutilated by the butchers in Children\u2019s Hospitals, the only thing they have succeeded in doing is making normal people hate and distrust them.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, some Democrats buy the hype. Plenty of people named Donald Trump as a threat to Democracy. But even more, by a significant margin, think the MSM is a larger threat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-504579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.29.26-PM-730x606-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.29.26-PM-730x606-1.png 730w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.29.26-PM-1110x922-1.png 1110w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-8.29.26-PM.png 2038w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/10\/majority-of-voters-believe-mainstream-media-is-threat-to-democracy-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Military News has a breakdown of the numbers<\/a>. As you can see, about 30% of Americans don\u2019t believe Democracy is under threat at all, and those people were not included in the tallies above.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most voters believe \u201cthe mainstream media\u201d is a threat to democracy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/18\/upshot\/times-siena-poll-toplines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a>\u00a0the 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><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>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<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Surprisingly both Democrats and Republicans largely agree that the media poses a huge threat to the Republic. While not agreeing on what other aspects of the American political system are creating a danger to our country, the MSM has managed to create peace in the valley on this one issue: the media really really sucks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Voters for both parties came out in high numbers against the media,\u00a0<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>\u00a0the 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<\/blockquote>\n<p>As much as I despise where the Democrats are politically these days, I would not count my fellow citizens who vote Democrat as a threat to Democracy. Radical Leftists, who are succeeding in bullying Democrat politicians into cowering before the woke gods are indeed a threat to the country, but frankly most politicians of either party are spineless wimps who will go wherever the they are told.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are voting for evil policies because evil policies are in vogue with their leadership and the most vocal parts of their Party. If they got a memo from a pollster tomorrow that the new \u201cin\u201d thing is funding the police, they will be all over it. If the NYT told them they believe the sky is green, they would take the talking points and run with them. They follow the money and the MSM.<\/p>\n<p>Our problem is less the institutional Democrats than the Leftists in the MSM, academia, and our cultural institutions. They have a stranglehold on the culture, the money, and through their fundraising abilities the Democrat Party. Destroy the institutional Left and the Democrats will return to merely being a normal policy menace. We would still need to outvote them, but they would not be in the business of destroying our country every waking moment.<\/p>\n<p>At least I hope that is the case. Most Democrats aren\u2019t AOC. They are just normal gutless cowards.<\/p>\n<p>So our electoral task is to emasculate the Democrats at the polls, but our existential mission has to be the utter destruction of every Leftist institution out there. The Mainstream Media is at the top of that list, along with Hollywood and the educational establishment at the primary, secondary, and college\/university level.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat politicians are creations of those institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In short: vote the Democrats out of office, then relentlessly destroy every Leftist institution out there and salt the earth where they stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something tells me that the New York Times wasn\u2019t pleased by the results they got when they asked this question. Is the mainstream media a major threat, a minor threat,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704100,"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-1704096","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\/1704096","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=1704096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}