{"id":11703,"date":"2021-06-16T09:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2021-06-16T09:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:33:42","slug":"release-new-polling-shows-majority-of-republican-voters-support-journalism-competition-preservation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/release-new-polling-shows-majority-of-republican-voters-support-journalism-competition-preservation-act\/","title":{"rendered":"New Polling Shows Majority of Republican Voters Support the\u00a0Journalism Competition and Preservation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013\u00a0Released today, new polling from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2f7de1;\"><a style=\"color: #2f7de1; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/echelonin.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/News-Media-Alliance-Memo-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Echelon Insights<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0in partnership with the News Media Alliance,\u00a0found that a majority of\u00a0the 956\u00a0Republican voters\u00a0surveyed\u00a0support the\u00a0<em>Journalism Competition and Preservation Act<\/em>\u00a0(JCPA),\u00a0a bipartisan bill\u00a0that\u00a0would grant news publishers\u00a0a\u00a0limited, temporary safe harbor to negotiate better business terms with\u00a0Big Tech platforms, including\u00a0Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Key data points include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>73%<\/strong> of Republican voters surveyed believe that local news outlets and conservative media need to be able to band together to better negotiate a fair deal with Big Tech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Three out of four<\/strong> (75%) Republican voters surveyed believe that Big Tech should not be allowed to profit from news content unless it is fairly compensating news organizations for using that content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>70%<\/strong> of Republican voters surveyed believe Facebook and Google take advantage of news publishers when they negotiate on a one-on-one basis and use their power to ignore small, local, and conservative news publishers, leaving them out of negotiations entirely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More than two-thirds<\/strong> (67%) of Republican respondents agree that elected officials who oppose the JCPA are allowing Big Tech to have all the negotiating power instead of arming conservative and local media with the tools to fight back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/echeloninsights.com\/in-the-news\/news-media-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">results of this poll<\/a> further cement what JCPA supporters in Congress have been saying:\u00a0voters value their local news publishers and believe that it is\u00a0now\u00a0more important than\u00a0ever to level the playing field between small, local and independent publications and Big Tech.\u00a0Congress must pass the JCPA to protect quality, local journalism.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the JCPA, visit the Alliance\u2019s Safe Harbor Resource Center at\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2f7de1;\"><a style=\"color: #2f7de1; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.SafeHarborBill.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.SafeHarborBill.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contact:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lauren Edmonds<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2f7de1;\"><a style=\"color: #2f7de1; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:lauren.edmonds@fgh.com\">lauren.edmonds@fgh.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The News Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,000 news organizations and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and globally. Alliance members include print, digital and mobile publishers of original news content. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Va., the association focuses on ensuring the future of news media through communication, research, advocacy and innovation. Information about the News Media Alliance (formerly NAA) can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\">www.newsmediaalliance.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New polling from\u00a0Echelon Insights,\u00a0in partnership with the News Media Alliance,\u00a0found that a majority of\u00a0the 956\u00a0Republican voters\u00a0surveyed\u00a0support the\u00a0Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776,642,828,648],"tags":[640,677,1855,472,202,2157,680,401,79,585,118,1856,39,121,54,55,532,47,647,827,249,2255,1136,701,808],"class_list":["post-11703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antitrust-digital","category-digital","category-press-releases","category-tech-platforms-digital","tag-antitrust","tag-big-tech","tag-bill","tag-compensation","tag-congress","tag-conservative","tag-duopoly","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-jcpa","tag-journalism","tag-journalism-competition-and-preservation","tag-local","tag-news","tag-news-media","tag-news-media-alliance","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-platforms","tag-press-release","tag-publishers","tag-republican","tag-safe-harbor","tag-tech-platforms","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}