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CounterSpin, the weekly radio program of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
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Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.
Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.
Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?
It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.
1You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
Voting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?
Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that it’s appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.
"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."
"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."
Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.
The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
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Listeners may find my review of Jen Senko's important book and documentary, "The Brainwashing of my Dad," interesting. It's called " The High Price of Delusion," and it can be found in the Against the Current website.
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Counterspin = yet another "news" program that takes a political position. Man, it is almost impossible to find actual news anymore. These people just can't seem to refrain from presenting their opinion.
Excellent Outstanding Episode better than any corporate / money media. Truly a 5 stars Podcast 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 We need more of this journalism, especially more in depth local media. And more importantly a focus on the Climate Disruption / Changes. How all the fires around the globe release more Co2 and removing the trees that gives us clean air to breathe. Or how about the Sea levels affecting the Coasts and Islands erosion, forcing people to move in land etc.. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/25/the-forest-service-not-only-loses-money-logging-it-makes-fires-worse/ ... https://fair.org/ ... https://www.factcheck.org/ ... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/09/both-parties-used-to-love-the-carbon-tax-so-why-are-they-giving-up-on-it/ ... https://www.truthdig.com/articles/black-plague-spanish-flu-smallpox-all-hold-lessons-for-coronavirus/ ... https://www.nationofchange.org/ ... https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFvjMOwDLtDAPvyE5RyKcwLfTG75KVNRw
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what is going on with the sound this week? The guests sound like they're talking into a voice-activated microphone. All the pauses are deleted, and the result is almost unintelligible. please fix it and cast it again. thank you.