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November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM

Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela Ricardo Vaz   Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS G…

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November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM

For NYT, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal

All posts View article on FAIR's website For NYT, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal Ari Paul   "Jimmy Carter" (Onion, 1/25/17): "Did you worry I might be cutting deals in back rooms with the peanut butter lobby? Or that I might be too busy at harvest time to foc…

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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM

Epstein & Mossad... 50-Year Mortgages... Housing & Media....

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November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM

50-Year Mortgages: Trump's 'Bad Deal' Gets Respectful Hearing From Press

All posts View article on FAIR's website 50-Year Mortgages: Trump's 'Bad Deal' Gets Respectful Hearing From Press Janine Jackson   Is a 50-year mortgage a good idea? CNN (11/11/25) tells readers—maybe! Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte soft-launched th…

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November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Emails Reveal Epstein's Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away

All posts View article on FAIR's website Emails Reveal Epstein's Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away Drew Favakeh   For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments,…

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November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media

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November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM

'They Are Creating the Opportunity to Shrink Democracy More':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They Are Creating the Opportunity to Shrink Democracy More': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Ball and Strikes' Madiba Dennie about the Supreme Court's threat to the Voting Rights Act for the November 7, 2025, episode o…

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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM

Mamdani Election... Cheney Obituaries... Voting Rights Danger........

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November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM

'The Trump Administration Needs to Be Isolated in Its Anti-Science Actions':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Trump Administration Needs to Be Isolated in Its Anti-Science Actions': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists' Rachel Cleetus about climate complicity for the October 31, 2025, episode o…

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November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Remembering Dick Cheney, 'Polarizing' War Criminal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Remembering Dick Cheney, 'Polarizing' War Criminal Belén Fernández   Jacobin (11/5/25) offered an unsanitized review of Dick Cheney's career. The corporate media in the United States have rarely met a servant of empire who isn’t…

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November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger

All posts View article on FAIR's website Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger CounterSpin   https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251107.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   Balls & …

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November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM

For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani's Victory Is to Take No Lessons

All posts View article on FAIR's website For Establishment Press, the Lesson of Mamdani's Victory Is to Take No Lessons Julie Hollar   In the first election since Donald Trump and the GOP have upended US democracy, Democrats won resoundingly in closely watched state and l…

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November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM

'Trump Clearly Has No Idea What He's Doing When It Comes to the Economy':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Trump Clearly Has No Idea What He's Doing When It Comes to the Economy': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR's Dean Baker about Donald Trump's economic nonsense for the October 31, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This i…

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November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Conde Nast, Paramount Cut Jobs—and Political Dissent

All posts View article on FAIR's website Conde Nast, Paramount Cut Jobs—and Political Dissent Ari Paul   Two major media brands announced layoffs and consolidation. Paramount, now under the control of the Ellison family, laid off 1,000 employees across its companies, incl…

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November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way

All posts View article on FAIR's website Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way Saurav Sarkar   Scary people of color featured prominently in the New York Post's anti-Mamdani tirades (10/19/25). If there’s one thing that the institutional opinion-m…

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November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Mamdani Beats Cuomo and the Press Hacks (Again)

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mamdani Beats Cuomo and the Press Hacks (Again) Ari Paul   New York City baseball legend Yogi Berra said it best: It’s déjà vu all over again. When Zohran Mamdani, a then-33-year-old democratic socialist state assembly member, beat…

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October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM

NYT vs. No Kings... Trumponomics... Health Insurers....

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October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Don't Worry, Wall Street Journal—Health Insurers Are Profitable!

All posts View article on FAIR's website Don't Worry, Wall Street Journal—Health Insurers Are Profitable! John Canham-Clyne   On October 21, Elevance Health (the rebrand of for-profit health insurer Anthem) announced its third quarter results. Operating revenue went up 12…

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October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM

Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics

All posts View article on FAIR's website Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251031.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode …

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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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