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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 20 hours 12 minutes
Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.
Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.
Chris Bernadel on Haiti
What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.
Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.
Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.
Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.