{"id":213362,"date":"2020-09-10T08:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213362"},"modified":"2020-09-14T06:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:30:50","slug":"public-support-for-sports-implodes-as-leagues-embrace-black-lives-matter-polls-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213362","title":{"rendered":"Public Support For Sports Implodes As Leagues Embrace Black Lives Matter, Polls Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Menahan \u2013 Renegade Tribune Sept 9, 2020<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Americans have gone from viewing the sports industry positively, on balance, to negatively in the wake of sports leagues embracing the divisive Black Lives Matter movement, a new survey found.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a Gallup survey conducted Jul 30-Aug 12, 2020, only 30% of Americans view the industry positively versus 40% who view it negatively, giving the industry an overall rating of -10.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Aug 2019, the industry\u2019s overall rating was +20, with 45% viewing it positively and 25% negatively. There has been a -30 shift in just one year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocrats\u2019 view of the sports industry has not changed significantly in the past year, while Republicans\u2019 has slipped from a +11 net-positive score in 2019 to a net -35 today, and independents\u2019 from +26 to -10,\u201d Gallup reported<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe sports industry\u2019s image has also deteriorated more among women than men, and among older adults than those younger than 35. Sports has also lost more support from non-White than White Americans, but given the extraordinarily high ratings from non-White adults a year ago, this group continues to view the sports industry positively on balance today. That is not the case with White adults, who now view the sports industry more negatively than positively, and by a 22-point margin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another Harris poll released last week found 39 percent of NBA fans say they\u2019re watching fewer games<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The league has become too political\u2019 was the clear choice for the decline, with 38% of respondents,\u201d The Harris Poll reported. \u201c\u2018Boring without fans\u2019 captured 28% of the vote while the NBA\u2019s association with China caused 19% of sports fans to turn the dial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Game 7 reported last week that the NBA\u2019s ratings are in \u201cfree fall<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the NBA Playoffs being in full swing and all the games having actual, genuine meaning, TV ratings for the first round were down 27 percent year over year,\u201d Game 7 reported<\/a> Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Information Liberation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sport has been used as a means to influence public opinion. Now however, it seems to have backfired. Are people finally waking up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,53,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-mind_control","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213367,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213362\/revisions\/213367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}