CounterSpin
553 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 458 ratingsCounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion
June 14, 2024 15:56 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBWill elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?
Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
June 07, 2024 15:34 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBIt is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.
Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
May 31, 2024 15:45 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBSome courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.
Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
May 24, 2024 15:47 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.
Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors
May 17, 2024 16:10 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.
Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion
May 10, 2024 15:38 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBUS press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.
Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
May 03, 2024 15:28 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBDifferent 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
April 26, 2024 15:48 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBColleges’ 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
April 19, 2024 16:06 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe 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
April 12, 2024 15:47 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBWhat 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
April 05, 2024 14:58 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBCorporate 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
March 29, 2024 15:50 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBA 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
March 22, 2024 16:17 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBElite 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
March 15, 2024 15:52 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBIndustry 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
March 08, 2024 16:40 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBDonald 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
March 01, 2024 15:49 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBIf we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.
Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
February 23, 2024 17:02 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBAs the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.
Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
February 16, 2024 16:14 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBAcheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”
Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things
February 14, 2024 17:02 - 8.4 KB application/pdfThe rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
February 09, 2024 16:17 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.
Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
February 02, 2024 16:32 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBWhat if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
WaPo Owes an Apology to the DC Mayor It Drove From Office
February 02, 2024 01:29 - 25.5 KB text/htmlThe Washington Post sought to preempt DC voters by getting rid of Mayor Vincent Gray before he stood for reelection.
Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting
January 26, 2024 16:51 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBCommunities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.
Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide
January 19, 2024 16:21 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBHow does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?
Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping
January 12, 2024 16:03 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBElite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.
Media Obsession With Inflation Has Manufactured Discontent
January 05, 2024 20:32 - 77 KB application/pdfCorporate media’s single-minded obsession with inflation has left the public with an objectively inaccurate view of the economy.
Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest
January 05, 2024 16:57 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBUS journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.
Best of CounterSpin 2023
December 29, 2023 16:27 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBCounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly.
Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism
December 22, 2023 15:22 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBPowerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.
Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media
December 15, 2023 16:57 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBWe can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.
Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace
December 08, 2023 16:36 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBThe devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.
Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics
December 01, 2023 17:03 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBToo many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician.
Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Javier Milei
November 24, 2023 15:46 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBArgentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”
For Cable News, a Palestinian Life Is Not the Same as an Israeli Life
November 17, 2023 19:22 - 3.31 MB application/pdfCable news coverage of victims, war crimes and context show a double standard when it comes to US allies versus official US enemies.
Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi
November 17, 2023 15:36 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.
‘Free Speech’ Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad
November 13, 2023 22:21 - 8.37 KB text/htmlThe Republican-held House could push to ban TikTok completely, on the grounds that it allows too much criticism of Israel.
Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson
November 10, 2023 14:40 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBShouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre
November 03, 2023 15:53 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MB“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism
October 27, 2023 15:28 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBPaxlovid'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
October 20, 2023 14:13 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe 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
October 13, 2023 15:24 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBThis 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 described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]
Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft
October 06, 2023 16:02 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBCorporate 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
September 29, 2023 16:06 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBThe 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
September 22, 2023 16:04 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBAn 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 15, 2023 15:34 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBSeptember 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
September 08, 2023 16:01 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBMedia 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
September 01, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBIt 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
August 25, 2023 15:07 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBThe ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about "how far we’ve come."
Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage
August 22, 2023 17:38 - 5 MB text/htmlIt is vital that news readers become acquainted with the tropes that dominate coverage of the Israeli occupation.
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction
August 18, 2023 14:55 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MBUnlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven't been called to account.