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October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM

'They Are Trying to Maximize the Amount of Money They Can Get Any Given Consumer to Pay'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They Are Trying to Maximize the Amount of Money They Can Get Any Given Consumer to Pay' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed journalist Katya Schwenk about AI surveillance pricing for the October 24, 2025, episode of CounterS…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM

'The government's Own Disclosures Demonstrate These Strikes Are Not Lawful':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The government's Own Disclosures Demonstrate These Strikes Are Not Lawful': Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU's Jeffrey Stein about Trump's boat attacks for the October 24, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a …
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October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM

'These Changes Are Reducing Our Power to Effect Positive Change for Families':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'These Changes Are Reducing Our Power to Effect Positive Change for Families': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Cara Brumfield about erasing federal data for the October 17, 20…
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October 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM

As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives

All posts View article on FAIR's website As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives Julie Hollar   What does this political moment in our country call for? The MAGA president and right-wing Supreme Court are shredding the Constitution at lightning s…
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October 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM

Gaza 'Ceasefire'... 'Peace' Prize... Pentagon Toadies....

Gaza 'Ceasefire'... 'Peace' Prize... Pentagon Toadies.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 24, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been workin…
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October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM

'Decades of National Security Policy Have Gotten Us to Where We Are':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Decades of National Security Policy Have Gotten Us to Where We Are': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights and Dissent's Chip Gibbons about Trump's plan to crush the left for the October 17, 2025, episode of…
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October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM

Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies

All posts View article on FAIR's website Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies Ari Paul The professional organization Military Reporters & Editors (CNN, 10/15/25) called the new press restrictions “an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and on the Americ…
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October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Jeffrey Stein on Trump's Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jeffrey Stein on Trump's Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251024.mp3 Right-click here to download…
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October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda

All posts View article on FAIR's website Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda Ricardo Vaz   Venezuelanalysis (7/8/24): "Washington’s unswerving support for Machado may be related to her extreme version of neoliberalism, which includes the privatization…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM

To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes

All posts View article on FAIR's website To Media, Gaza Ceasefire Holds Despite Repeated Israeli Strikes Belén Fernández On October 10, a ceasefire was declared in the Gaza Strip, where more than 67,000 Palestinians were officially killed in just over two years of Israel’…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM

'Hard Math'...Portland Lies..."Counterterrorism" Project...

'Hard Math'...Portland Lies..."Counterterrorism" Project... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 17, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been work…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data

All posts View article on FAIR's website Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251017.mp3 Right-click here…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM

'You Had US Media Carrying Out Incitement to Genocide, and Then Shifting to Genocide Denial'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'You Had US Media Carrying Out Incitement to Genocide, and Then Shifting to Genocide Denial' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed academic and writer Gregory Shupak about how to deny Gaza genocide for the October 10, 2025, epi…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM

WaPo Says 'Hard Math' Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Says 'Hard Math' Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life Conor Smyth   Washington Post (10/6/25): "Across Europe, and especially in France, the bill is coming due." The European welfare state has to die. At least, that’…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Trump's Portland Lies Euphemized as 'Dueling Versions of Reality'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump's Portland Lies Euphemized as 'Dueling Versions of Reality' Saurav Sarkar   New York Times (10/10/25): "The repercussions of those dueling versions of reality became clear." As more and more US cities face the prospect of …
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October 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM

Flotilla Coverage Both-Sidesed Delivering Food to Starving People

All posts View article on FAIR's website Flotilla Coverage Both-Sidesed Delivering Food to Starving People Caitlin Scialla     Late in the evening of October 1, the Israeli Navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a fleet of more than 50 vessels that had set off …
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October 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM

Genocide Denial... Sinclair vs. Disney... CBS & MAGA....

Genocide Denial... Sinclair vs. Disney... CBS & MAGA.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 10, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been wor…
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October 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM

NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case Olivia Riggio   The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge on free speech grounds to Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ “conversion therapy” fo…
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October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM

Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial

All posts View article on FAIR's website Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251010.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   Al…
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October 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM

Jared Kushner 'Out of the Spotlight'—But Not Out of Mideast Politics, or Out of the Money

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jared Kushner 'Out of the Spotlight'—But Not Out of Mideast Politics, or Out of the Money Belén Fernández   President Donald Trump dispatched his son-in law Jared Kushner and the United States’ Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to Eg…
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October 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Wall Street Journal Has Many Ways to Deny Genocide Gregory Shupak   As more and more scholars, and one rights group after another, confirm that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza, it’s becoming ever more obvious that tho…
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October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM

CBS's Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come

All posts View article on FAIR's website CBS's Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come Jim Naureckas   Justice Amy Coney Barrett's crucial Dobbs vote "let each state decide whether to allow abortion or not," wrote CBS's Jan Crawford (10/6/25). "But the d…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM

MAGA's Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

All posts View article on FAIR's website MAGA's Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV Pete Tucker   Jeff Cohen (Salon, 9/20/25) traces media's censorship problem to "the 1980s and 1990s, when presidents of both parties and Congress deci…
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October 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

'There's No Space in the American Landscape Where the Shadow of the Prison Doesn't Fall':  

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There's No Space in the American Landscape Where the Shadow of the Prison Doesn't Fall':   Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal about media and power for the October 3, 2025, episode …
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October 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Mumia Interview... Trump Outlaws Criticism... RIP CPB....

Mumia Interview... Trump Outlaws Criticism... RIP CPB.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 3, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working…
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October 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal Jim Naureckas   In a videotaped statement (AP, 9/10/25), Trump said that comparing people like Charlie Kirk to Nazis is "directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our count…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM

Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power CounterSpin   https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251003.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   Mumia Abu-Jamal This …
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October 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM

NPR's Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin

All posts View article on FAIR's website NPR's Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin Wilson Korik   Planet Money promises, "See the world through the lens of an economist and you'll start to feel a little less overwhelmed when making financial decisions." For six…
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October 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM

'Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed MediaJustice's Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan of the No Desert Data Center Coalition about data center opposition for the Septembe…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM

When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

All posts View article on FAIR's website When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters Shirlynn Chan   Twenty-three-year-old Robin Westman on August 27 opened fire through the windows of a church where children were attending mass to celebrate their…
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October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM

CPB Is Dead, But We Need Public Media More Than Ever

All posts View article on FAIR's website CPB Is Dead, But We Need Public Media More Than Ever Ari Paul   As a proportion of GDP, US spending on public media was already minuscule compared to that of many other  countries. (Chart: Media Inequality & Change.) Federal…
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September 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM

US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year Hank Kennedy   This Herblock cartoon (Washington Post, 3/29/50) is the first recorded use of the word "McCarthyism." The political cartoon is of vast importance to the histo…
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September 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Final Stretch!

Final Stretch! View this email in your browser   Final Stretch! Dear FAIR Community,   We are in the final stretch of our fall fundraising campaign and still short of our $25,000 goal.   Please dona…
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September 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM

'Kristi Noem Is Actually Claiming Videotaping DHS Officers Is Violent':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Kristi Noem Is Actually Claiming Videotaping DHS Officers Is Violent': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed writer and researcher Matthew Cunningham-Cook about criminalizing witness for the September 19, 2025, episode of Co…
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September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM

When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note

All posts View article on FAIR's website When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note Drew Favakeh Ahmed Saeed Tazaz’a, 20, died in Israel's Megiddo prison in August 2025. He was never charged or tried—and his death was never covered by US…
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September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Kirk Purges... Pentagon vs. Press... Junket in Jerusalem....

Kirk Purges... Pentagon vs. Press... Junket in Jerusalem.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: September 26, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been w…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM

UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel 

All posts View article on FAIR's website UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel  Tyler Poisson   Israel “shot at and killed civilians, some of whom (including children) were holding makeshift white flags,” according to the UN report (CNN, 9/17…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM

'The White House Is Shaking Down Media Owners to Get Them to Follow the Trump Agenda'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The White House Is Shaking Down Media Owners to Get Them to Follow the Trump Agenda' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press's Tim Karr about media capitulation for the September 19, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This…
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September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM

'Near Daily' Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Near Daily' Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media Belén Fernández   This same headline the BBC (9/18/25) used could run nearly every day. The Israeli military unleashed a large wave of air strikes o…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250926.mp3 Right-clic…
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September 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM

For US Corporate Media, Italy's Gaza Protests Had Two Strikes Against Them

All posts View article on FAIR's website For US Corporate Media, Italy's Gaza Protests Had Two Strikes Against Them Saurav Sarkar   New York Times headline writers (9/22/25) localized a nationwide protest, and got to use one of their favorite verbs—"clash." Marching th…
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September 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Trump Turns Pentagon Into Department of War on First Amendment

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump Turns Pentagon Into Department of War on First Amendment Ari Paul   NBC News (9/20/25): "Journalists who cover the Defense Department at the Pentagon can no longer gather or report information, even if it is unclassified, u…
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September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Charlie Kirk Purges Show the Need to Stand Up to Government Bullying

All posts View article on FAIR's website Charlie Kirk Purges Show the Need to Stand Up to Government Bullying Pete Tucker   With the firing of Karen Attiah, the Washington Post no longer has any full-time Black columnists.  For many years, the nation’s capital was know…
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September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM

One Week Left! Join Us in Our Fight!

One Week Left! Join Us in Our Fight! View this email in your browser   One Week Left! Join Us in Our Fight! Dear FAIR friend,  We’re in the last week of our fall fundraiser, with a crucial goal of …
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September 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM

Whitewashing Kirk... Corporate Compliance... TikTok Sale....

Whitewashing Kirk... Corporate Compliance... TikTok Sale.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: September 19, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been w…
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September 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM

ACTION ALERT: Snopes Thinks Kirk Was Kidding About Killing Gays Being 'God's Perfect Law'

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: Snopes Thinks Kirk Was Kidding About Killing Gays Being 'God's Perfect Law' Julie Hollar   Counterpoint: Yes, he did (Snopes, 9/16/25). When readers asked Snopes, the popular urban legend–dispelling website, to loo…
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September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM

As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media Ari Paul   One of the "Trumpy billionaires" (Daily Beast, 9/17/25) taking over TikTok is Oracle's Larry Ellison (above right). Larry Ellison, founder of the software fi…
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September 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance

All posts View article on FAIR's website Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250919.mp3 Right-click here to download …
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September 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM

Barnard Prez's NYT Op-Ed Is Height of Hypocrisy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Barnard Prez's NYT Op-Ed Is Height of Hypocrisy Ari Paul   "Host difficult speakers," Barnard president Laura Rosenbury (New York Times, 9/11/25) urged—but don't screen difficult films about Zionism. The definition of the Yiddis…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM

'Media Really Took at Face Value What Trump Said About This Boat and Its Occupants':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Media Really Took at Face Value What Trump Said About This Boat and Its Occupants': Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR's Alex Main about Trump's Venezuelan boat assault for the September 12, 2025, episode of Counte…