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May 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM

Israel vs. Journalism... Democracy Warnings... Trans Care 'Questions'....

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May 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM

An 'Objective' Press Won't Alert You to Threats to Democracy

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May 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM

'I'm Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'I'm Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed UNRWA USA's Mara Kronenfeld about Israel's aid blockade for the May 16, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tr…

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May 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care 'Questions'

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May 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM

NYT Publisher Decries Assault on Press, But Ignores Journalism's Worst Enemy

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Publisher Decries Assault on Press, But Ignores Journalism's Worst Enemy Ari Paul   New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger (5/13/25) says the press should ask itself, "Were we open-minded enough to unexpected facts?" It's a…

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May 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM

Weaponized Famine... Human Shields... Crypto Corruption....

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May 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM

How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don't Have to Give a Damn

All posts View article on FAIR's website How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don't Have to Give a Damn Janine Jackson   The World Health Organization (5/12/25) "calls for the protection of health care and for an immediate end to the aid blockade, which is starvi…

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May 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM

'This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Biological Diversity's Ashley Nunes about the selloff of public lands for the May 9, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This i…

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May 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM

With Friends in Media, Brazil's Coffee Workers Don't Need Enemies

All posts View article on FAIR's website With Friends in Media, Brazil's Coffee Workers Don't Need Enemies Brian Mier   It seems like an odd moment for the US media to do a hit job on Brazil's coffee industry. Protective tariffs have been used since the 1800s in the US to…

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May 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Mara Kronenfeld on Israel's Aid Blockade

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May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM

'Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Bartlett Naylor about Trump's crypto grift for the May 9, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…

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May 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM

One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That's Usually Blamed

All posts View article on FAIR's website One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That's Usually Blamed Gregory Shupak   Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses P…

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May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Spanish Blackout... Taibbi vs. FAIR... Trump Crypto Grift...

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May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM

'Black History Is American History':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Black History Is American History': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the African American Policy Forum's Tanya Clay House about erasing history for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…

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May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff

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May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM

'Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https:/…

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May 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Jumping to Blame Renewables for Iberian Outage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jumping to Blame Renewables for Iberian Outage Ari Paul   The world doesn’t know yet what caused the dramatic power outage on the Iberian Peninsula (BBC, 4/28/25). Nevertheless, the right-wing press both in the US and Britain quick…

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May 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Taibbi Cites Government Attacks on Media to Defend Government Attacks on Media

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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Free Speech...Healthcare Price Battles...Freedom to Learn

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May 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe

All posts View article on FAIR's website Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe Julie Hollar   Green Card–holding students are being abducted from the streets by agents of the state for attending protests and writing op-eds. News outlets are being investigated by the FCC …

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May 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Do Mob Wars Help Crime Victims?:

All posts View article on FAIR's website Do Mob Wars Help Crime Victims?: John Canham-Clyne   The Summit (Colo.) Daily (5/2/24) amplified the anxiety health consumers felt in the face of providers' and insurers' threats. This time last year, tens of thousands of people…

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May 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists

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April 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM

'The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice's Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpi…

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April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM

'There's Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There's Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE': Janine Jackson         Janine Jackson interviewed the Revolving Door Project's Jeff Hauser about DOGE's infiltration for the April 25, 2025, …

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April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM

One More Day!

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April 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar

All posts View article on FAIR's website Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar Ari Paul   Wikipedia editor Molly White told the Washington Post (4/25/25) that the Trump administration was “weaponizing laws to try to silence high-quality independent infor…

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April 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Francis Obits... Gaza Starvation... Eliminating CPB....

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April 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM

As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame It for Famine

All posts View article on FAIR's website As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame It for Famine Belén Fernández   Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir tweeted that Republican officials at Mar-a-Lago "expressed support…

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April 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM

'Yemen Has Been a Place the US Has Seen Fit to Bomb With Little Public Discussion':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Yemen Has Been a Place the US Has Seen Fit to Bomb With Little Public Discussion': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies' Khury Petersen-Smith about Yemen distortions for the April 18, 2025, …

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April 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Cuts to PBS, NPR Part of Authoritarian Playbook

All posts View article on FAIR's website Cuts to PBS, NPR Part of Authoritarian Playbook Ari Paul   NPR CEO Katherine Maher (center) testifies in Congress against cuts to public broadcasting (NPR, 4/15/25). NPR (4/15/25) found itself having to write its own obituary re…

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April 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM

Jeff Hauser on DOGE, Karen Thompson on 'Fetal Personhood'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jeff Hauser on DOGE, Karen Thompson on 'Fetal Personhood' CounterSpin   https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250425.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   …

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April 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Politico Plays With Polling to Manufacture 'Trump-Resistance Fatigue'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Politico Plays With Polling to Manufacture 'Trump-Resistance Fatigue' Julie Hollar   Politico (4/16/25) finds "a disconnect between political elites"—i.e., its own subscribers—"and the electorate." A recent Politico article (4/1…

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April 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Pope Francis Obits Omit Focus on Palestine

All posts View article on FAIR's website Pope Francis Obits Omit Focus on Palestine Ari Paul   Reuters not only had a stand-alone story (4/22/25) about Palestinians' response to Francis' death, but included his advocacy for Gaza in its main obituary (4/21/25). The obit…

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April 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Time to Mobilize!

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April 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Constitutional Crisis... Yemen Distortions... Erasing Jewish Protesters....

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April 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker

All posts View article on FAIR's website Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker Ari Paul Mike Gallagher (Wall Street Journal, 4/15/25) insists the "scientific elite...should have come clean about the pandemic’s laboratory o…

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April 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions

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April 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Fox News Can't Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters

All posts View article on FAIR's website Fox News Can't Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters Wilson Korik   AP (3/13/25): "Demonstrators from [Jewish Voice for Peace] filled the lobby of Trump Tower...to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pr…

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April 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM

Failing to Rise to the Constitutional Crisis

All posts View article on FAIR's website Failing to Rise to the Constitutional Crisis Ari Paul   The Trump administration maintains that it can send people to overseas concentration camps with impunity  because "activist judges do not have the jurisdiction to seize cont…

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April 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM

'They're Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They're Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the American Immigration Council's Dara Lind about the criminalization of immigrants for the Apr…

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April 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM

This work can’t wait!

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April 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM

Hands Off! Protest... Medic Murders... Cuomo's Return....

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April 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel's Murder of Paramedics

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel's Murder of Paramedics Belén Fernández   NBC (4/7/25) presented evidence that killed 15 aid workers and buried their bodies along with their vehicles as an IDF "mistake." Israeli soldiers on Ma…

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April 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants

All posts View article on FAIR's website Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   Int…

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April 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM

'This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment': Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press's Jessica González about Trump's FCC for the April 4, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https:/…

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April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM

'The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Vaccine Education Center's Paul Offit about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and measles for the April 4, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. …

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April 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM

NYT Covers Up for Cuomo

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Covers Up for Cuomo Julie Hollar   Just under four years ago, New York's third-term governor, Andrew Cuomo, resigned from office in disgrace, forced out by a looming impeachment inquiry led by his own Democratic Party over sexu…

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April 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM

Corporate Media Minimize Massive Hands Off! Protests

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Minimize Massive Hands Off! Protests Julie Hollar   After the biggest anti-Trump protests since the 2017 Women's March, many major media outlets seemed intent on downplaying the size and significance of the massive …

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April 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM

Support Fearless Independent Media!

Support Fearless Independent Media! View this email in your browser   Support Fearless Independent Media! Dear FAIR Friends,  Every day, the news becomes more and more dire as the US teeters on the…

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April 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Protest Coverage... Yemen Bombing... Section 230...

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