{"id":1707309,"date":"2022-10-23T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707309"},"modified":"2022-10-23T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:03:17","slug":"americans-identify-media-as-democracys-biggest-threat-and-the-response-proves-them-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-identify-media-as-democracys-biggest-threat-and-the-response-proves-them-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Identify Media As Democracy\u2019s Biggest Threat, And The Response Proves Them Right"},"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%2Famericans-identify-media-as-democracys-biggest-threat-and-the-response-proves-them-right%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=1707309&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>American corporate media are somewhere between a \u201cmajor\u201d and \u201ca minor threat to democracy.\u201d Far from a crotchety, back-bencher sentiment, this is now the opinion of a majority of the American people, according to no less than corporate media icon The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/17\/upshot\/times-siena-poll-likely-voters-crosstabs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> conducted by the Siena College Research Institute and the Times from Oct. 9-12, 74 percent of the \u201clikely voters\u201d polled believe \u201cdemocracy is currently under threat,\u201d and 83 percent believe the corporate media themselves are the threat.<\/p>\n<p>While President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, Democrats, Republicans, the Supreme Court, mail-in-ballots, electronic voting machines, and even the Electoral College all polled terribly, the media outperformed them all, with 59 percent of likely voters calling them a \u201cmajor threat to democracy,\u201d and another 24 percent calling them a mere \u201cminor threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was a surprise to Times\u2019 chief political analyst, who admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/18\/upshot\/nyt-poll-threats-democracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in his write-up<\/a> that he\u2019d been focused on the same \u201cthreats to democracy\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/17\/us\/american-democracy-threats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his colleagues had been focused on<\/a>: Republicans, as well as \u201cundemocratic elements of American elected government like the Electoral College, gerrymandering and the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To put it more bluntly (a difficult task), he\u2019d assumed we all thought the last few vestiges of the American constitutional republic (the Electoral College and the Senate), plus gerrymandering and free political opposition were the top dangers to our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The American people, it seems, knew differently. Hallelujah! It\u2019s never good to learn you have a deadly illness, but if there\u2019s any shot of treating it in time, well \u2014 it\u2019s best to know you have it. This is the case in our current situation: Trust in American institutions is at all-time lows, and deservedly so \u2014 broadly speaking, our institutions deserve less trust than at any time before.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post senior political reporter Aaron Blake reported on the findings later Monday morning. The problem, he wrote, is Democrats had failed \u201cto make 2022 about the threat to democracy\u201d posed by Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>While a lot of Democrats, he lamented, believe Trump is a threat, they had failed to make that translate to the half of the country who support him. He was surprised to learn Americans outside of D.C., New York, and San Francisco think Democrats are a greater danger to democracy than Republicans, and even more surprised to learn independents agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, he claimed unironically, is for Democrats to double down on their messaging of calling their political opponents dangerous terrorists and fascists. Unsurprisingly, his analysis failed to note the corporate media he is a part of scored lower than anything else \u2014 self-awareness is rarely the \u201cpolitical analysts\u2019\u201d strength.<\/p>\n<p>Later that very day, MSNBC host and former Bush White House staffer Nicolle Wallace claimed the Jan. 6 riot was the \u201cdeadliest attack on the U.S. Capitol in our, you know, in history,\u201d bypassing both the British burning of the building and the deadly planned Flight 93 attack on the Capitol during the administration she\u2019d later work for.<\/p>\n<p>Disgraced former FBI Agent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media assume the last few vestiges of the American constitutional republic are the top dangers to our freedom. 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