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Clean water distribution in Jackson, Mississippi

(Image: Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition)

This week on CounterSpin: Media are certainly following the story of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio—giving us a chance to see how floods of reporters can get out there and print a lot of words about a thing…and still not ask the deepest questions and demand the meaningful answers that might move us past outrage and sorrow to actual change. Are there not forces meant to protect people from this sort of harm? Is it awkward for reporters to interrogate the powerful on these questions? Yes! But if they aren't doing it, why do they have a constitutional amendment dedicated to protecting their right to do it?

There's a test underway right now in Jackson, Mississippi, where residents who have been harmed many times over are now being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice. Here's where a free press would speak up loudly, doggedly—and transparently, about what's going on.

Makani Themba is a Jackson resident and volunteer with the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition ([link removed]) . She's also chief strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies ([link removed]) . She'll bring us up to speed on Jackson.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of Social Security.

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