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 19 hours 16 minutes
Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism
Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters
The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza
This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly...
Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft
Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.
Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment
The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.
Lisa Xu on Auto Workers Strike
An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time.
Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.
Amanda Yee on Korean Travel Ban, Hyun Lee on Korea History
Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms.
Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch and Kevin Kumashiro on Education
It does no disservice to the education battles of the current day to connect them to previous battles and conversations.
Kehsi Iman Wilson on Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about "how far we’ve come."