CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon
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(cc photo: Joe Flood) This week on CounterSpin: Elite news media are saying that Biden has to go to Saudi Arabia in July despite his pledges to make the country a “pariah” for abuses including the grisly murder of a Washington Post contributor, because…stability? Shaking hands with Mohammed bin Salman makes sense, even in the context of denying Cub…
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Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall
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Vincent Chin (1955-1982) This week on CounterSpin: The New York Times didn’t address the brutal 1982 murder of Chinese-American Vincent Chin until 1983, in response to ongoing protest centered in Detroit’s Asian-American community, about the killing and the lack of justice—at which point the paper ran a story with a lead claiming that when “two men…
AP (6/2/22) reported that “the government seems intent on wiping the landscape clean of any organization it does not control.” President Daniel Ortega’s government in Nicaragua is “laying waste to civil society,” according to the Associated Press (6/2/22). The Guardian (6/2/22) called it a “sweeping purge of civil society,” while for the New York T…
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Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid
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(photo: African Union) This week on CounterSpin: Some of the worst work that corporate news media do is convince us that simple things are actually, if you just ignore the role of power, more complicated than you could hope to understand. So, yes, Covid is killing millions of people, and yes, there are tests and treatments and vaccines for it, and …
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Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence
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Barry Lee Jones (left) and David Martinez Ramirez had appeals rejected by the Supreme Court. This week on CounterSpin: AP‘s May 23 headline told readers: “Supreme Court Rules Against Inmates in Right to Counsel Case.” Those who got past the idea of being interested in “inmates” were favored with a lead that explained that “the Supreme Court ruled a…
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Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC
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CBS (5/26/22) This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life i…
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Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’
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Tucker Carlson (Fox News, 4/12/21) This week on CounterSpin: Ten human beings were killed and three wounded in Buffalo, New York. By the killer’s own admission, he sought to kill Black people because they are Black, and he is a white supremacist who believes there’s a plot to “replace” white people with Black and brown people, a plot run by the Jew…
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Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage
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Washington Post (5/11/22) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media want you to be alarmed about an “extraordinary breach” of privacy. It’s the privacy of the institution of the Supreme Court which, one CBS expert told viewers, had been dealt a “body blow” by the leak of a ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision allowing the right…
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Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News
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A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it. The post Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News appeared first on FAIR.Av Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week's major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).Av CounterSpin
"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time. The post Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing appeared first on FAIR.Av Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy
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Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show. The post Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy appeared first on FAIR.Av Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’
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The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions. The post Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’ appeared first on FAIR.Av Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Trump, Mike Liszewski on Marijuana Justice
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This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy Pelosi wasn’t putting a stop to it. He doesn’t remember getting many phone calls, and he didn’t destroy any […] The post Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Tru…