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February 14, 2020 at 11:40 PM

Pundits Look to Bloomberg as Their Anti-Sanders Savior

All posts View this email in your browser   Pundits Look to Bloomberg as Their Anti-Sanders Savior by Julie Hollar Coming out of the first two Democratic primary states, with Bernie Sanders leading in votes and Pete Buttigieg leading in delegates, who is "starting to dominate the …

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February 14, 2020 at 9:25 PM

Backlash After Kobe Bryant's Death Illustrates Continued Resistance to Discussing Sexual Assault

All posts View this email in your browser   Backlash After Kobe Bryant's Death Illustrates Continued Resistance to Discussing Sexual Assault by Olivia Riggio In the hours following the helicopter crash that left basketball star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seve…

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February 14, 2020 at 4:49 PM

Jim Naureckas on Democratic Primaries, Nina Luo on Decriminalizing Sex Work

All posts View this email in your browser   Jim Naureckas on Democratic Primaries, Nina Luo on Decriminalizing Sex Work Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Reuters (Twitter, 2/11/20) This week on CounterSpin: Remember when Les Moon…

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February 14, 2020 at 12:36 PM

For Media in New Hampshire, Losing Is Winning and Winning Is Losing

All posts View this email in your browser   For Media in New Hampshire, Losing Is Winning and Winning Is Losing by Alan MacLeod The results from the New Hampshire primary are in—mercifully quickly—showing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders victorious with 26% of the vote, ahead of former…

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February 13, 2020 at 12:46 PM

No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home

All posts View this email in your browser   No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home by Joshua Cho After the illegal assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, FAIR (1/9/20) noted that the corporate media offered no moral objecti…

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February 12, 2020 at 8:40 PM

Left Media and Venezuela: An Exchange

All posts View this email in your browser   Left Media and Venezuela: An Exchange  Critique, Solidarity and Movement Building: A Reply to Lucas Koerner by Gabriel Hetland FAIR.org (1/22/20) Lucas Koerner’s recent piece for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, “How Western Left …

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February 12, 2020 at 6:59 PM

ACTION ALERT: NBC Garbles Graph on Democrats' Electability

All posts View this email in your browser   ACTION ALERT: NBC Garbles Graph on Democrats' Electability by Jim Naureckas Many Democratic voters say that the most important thing they're looking for in a presidential candidate is an ability to defeat Donald Trump. NBC News did such…

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February 11, 2020 at 10:57 PM

ABC Asking for Attacks Was a Lazy Way to Run a Debate

All posts View this email in your browser   ABC Asking for Attacks Was a Lazy Way to Run a Debate by Julie Hollar You knew it was going to be a long night when ABC's George Stephanopoulos spent the first 11 minutes of the February 7 Democratic presidential debate directing a discu…

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February 7, 2020 at 11:25 PM

Manufacturing Success: CNN's Premature Parade for Buttigieg in Iowa

All posts View this email in your browser   Manufacturing Success: CNN's Premature Parade for Buttigieg in Iowa by Julie Hollar Four days after the Iowa caucuses took place, no victor has been declared and the vote remains mired in controversy and irregularities. But if you've bee…

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February 7, 2020 at 9:48 PM

Media Urge Palestinians to Take Crumbs—Because Democracy Is Not on Offer

All posts View this email in your browser   Media Urge Palestinians to Take Crumbs—Because Democracy Is Not on Offer by Gregory Shupak The Trump administration's "Vision for Peace" The Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” is supposedly a plan to solve the question of Pal…

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February 7, 2020 at 4:25 PM

Karl Grossman on the Weaponization of Space

All posts View this email in your browser   Karl Grossman on the Weaponization of Space Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Washington Post illustration (12/3/19) promoting Trump's Space Force This week on CounterSpin: Announcing p…

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February 6, 2020 at 1:13 AM

How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning

All posts View this email in your browser   How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning by Jim Naureckas If you turn to the New York Times for an update on the excruciatingly and inexplicably slow counting of the votes from the Iowa caucuses, you find what looks like a ba…

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February 5, 2020 at 9:14 PM

Journalist/Politician/Corporate Coziness on Display at Snowflake Garden Brunch

All posts View this email in your browser   Journalist/Politician/Corporate Coziness on Display at Snowflake Garden Brunch by Julie Hollar Every now and then, reporters pull back the curtain a bit and reveal the incestuousness of the Beltway media/politician nexus. The New York Ti…

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February 5, 2020 at 7:11 PM

'These Are New Tactics Being Employed to Silence Journalism'

All posts View this email in your browser   'These Are New Tactics Being Employed to Silence Journalism' Janine Jackson interviewed Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Rainey Reitman about the persecution of Glenn Greenwald for the January 31, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a …

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February 4, 2020 at 10:06 PM

Witness to a Farce

All posts View this email in your browser   Witness to a Farce by Dorothee Benz Watching the actions of the Trump administration through the lens of the New York Times’ coverage has been by turns dumbfounding, disheartening and infuriating. While the white nationalists running our…

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February 4, 2020 at 4:35 PM

'This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It's a Nonstarter'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is an Apartheid Proposal and It's a Nonstarter' Janine Jackson interviewed the Arab American Institute’s Omar Baddar about the Trump/Kushner “peace deal” for Israel/Palestine for the January 31, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This i…

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February 3, 2020 at 11:35 PM

News Flash: Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism

All posts View this email in your browser   News Flash: Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism by Alan MacLeod Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: ri…

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February 1, 2020 at 12:18 AM

Media Sanders Panic... Climate Crisis Coverage... Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan....

Media Sanders Panic... Climate Crisis Coverage... Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan.... View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: January 31, 2020 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this week. Please help us spread th…

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February 1, 2020 at 12:06 AM

Ending Palestinian Statehood as ‘Path’ to Palestinian Statehood

All posts View this email in your browser   Ending Palestinian Statehood as ‘Path’ to Palestinian Statehood by Joshua Cho Detail of Trump's "conceptual map" for Israel/Palestine. Media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict over the years has typically portrayed Palestinians …

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January 31, 2020 at 10:00 PM

Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn

All posts View this email in your browser   Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn by Neil deMause Time's naming Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year (12/23–30/19) was a symbol of rising media interest in the threat posted by climate change. The year 2019 was, by all acc…

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January 31, 2020 at 4:17 PM

Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution

All posts View this email in your browser   Omar Baddar on Israel/Palestine 'Peace' Plan, Rainey Reitman on Greenwald Persecution Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Detail from Kushner "conceptual map." This week on CounterSpin: I…

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January 31, 2020 at 1:37 PM

'This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is About Making a Very Large Number of Indians Second-Class Citizens' Janine Jackson interviewed Globetrotter’s Vijay Prashad about demonstrations in India for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited …

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January 30, 2020 at 11:52 PM

Corporate Media Are the Real 'Sanders Attack Machine'

All posts View this email in your browser   Corporate Media Are the Real 'Sanders Attack Machine' by Julie Hollar As the Iowa caucuses approach, corporate media are beginning to panic. "Running Bernie Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity," insisted  Jonathan Chait in …

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January 30, 2020 at 3:58 PM

The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed

All posts View this email in your browser   The New York Times Endorsement Has Often Been a Boost for the Unendorsed by Alan MacLeod The New York Times’ recent endorsement (1/19/20) of both Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination see…

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January 29, 2020 at 9:39 PM

the continuation of this neocolonial system is not being dismantled

All posts View this email in your browser   the continuation of this neocolonial system is not being dismantled Janine Jackson interviewed Manuel Pérez-Rocha about NAFTA 2.0 for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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January 29, 2020 at 7:51 PM

'This Type of Surveillance Threatens Us All'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Type of Surveillance Threatens Us All' Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Chip Gibbons about the FBI vs. the First Amendment for the January 17, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transc…

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January 28, 2020 at 3:38 PM

It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem

All posts View this email in your browser   It’s Media—Not Bernie Sanders—That Have an Antisemitism Problem by Alan MacLeod Have you heard the news? Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders is antisemitic. Yes, yes, he’s Jewish, and has a long history of anti-racist acti…

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January 24, 2020 at 11:45 PM

Sanders = Trump?... Biden & Social Security... US Right to Violence....

Sanders = Trump?... Biden & Social Security... US Right to Violence.... View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: January 24, 2020 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this week. Please help us spread the word b…

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January 24, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels

All posts View this email in your browser   Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels by Joshua Cho Ever since The Intercept (11/20/18) found several planning documents by the Partnership for America’s Healthcare Future (PAHCF), a benign-sounding corporate alli…

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January 24, 2020 at 8:54 PM

Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat

All posts View this email in your browser   Corporate Media Equate Sanders to Trump—Because for Them, Sanders Is the Bigger Threat by Julie Hollar As Bernie Sanders emerged as a threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination in 2016, media began liberally tossing around artic…

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January 24, 2020 at 4:26 PM

Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0

All posts View this email in your browser   Vijay Prashad on India Demonstrations, Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0 Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (image: VOA) This week on CounterSpin: Millions of Indians—maybe a quarter of a …

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January 23, 2020 at 10:33 PM

'This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran'  Janine Jackson interviewed media scholar Gregory Shupak about the Soleimani assassination for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcri…

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January 22, 2020 at 10:07 PM

23 Headlines Obscure Biden's Lies About Cutting Social Security

All posts View this email in your browser   23 Headlines Obscure Biden's Lies About Cutting Social Security by Joshua Cho Here’s something many Americans would be very interested to know: Is a leading candidate in the Democratic primary a liar? And since a strong majority of Ameri…

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January 22, 2020 at 7:51 PM

How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela

All posts View this email in your browser   How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela by Lucas Koerner In Jacobin (2/5/19)... It’s been a year since Juan Guaidó began his US-anointed mandate as “interim president” of Venezuela. Following the oppositi…

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January 21, 2020 at 10:34 PM

'The Driving Force Is to Help Polluters Get Their Permits Faster'

All posts View this email in your browser   'The Driving Force Is to Help Polluters Get Their Permits Faster' Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Biological Diversity’s Brett Hartl on the National Environmental Policy Act for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. Thi…

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January 21, 2020 at 5:29 PM

Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon

All posts View this email in your browser   Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon by Brian Mier Netflix's Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy Like The Mechanism before it, Netflix’s new series Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy is …

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January 21, 2020 at 4:15 PM

The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence

All posts View this email in your browser   The US’s Inalienable Right to Violence by Gregory Shupak This Washington Post headline  (1/7/20) is probably true. Even when critical of US actions, media commentary on recent US bombings and assassinations in the Middle East is premis…

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January 21, 2020 at 12:02 AM

CNN's Debate Questions... Facebook & First Amendment... Anti-Homeless Reporters

CNN's Debate Questions... Facebook & First Amendment... Anti-Homeless Reporters View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: January 20, 2020 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this week. Please help us spread th…

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January 17, 2020 at 12:19 PM

Chip Gibbons on FBI vs. 1st Amendment

All posts View this email in your browser   Chip Gibbons on FBI vs. 1st Amendment Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link Image: Defending Rights & Dissent This week on CounterSpin: At a Sacramento rally in 2016, members of a white…

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January 15, 2020 at 10:56 PM

The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation

All posts View this email in your browser   The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation by Jim Naureckas and Julie Hollar The biggest loser from last night’s Democratic debate (1/14/20) was CNN’s journalistic credibility. CNN debates have been marked by a tendency to pit on…

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January 15, 2020 at 6:16 PM

Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters

All posts View this email in your browser   Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters by Josmar Trujillo Breaking news from the New York Post (12/30/19): A man is "grabbing food from the trays and shoving it directly into his mouth, wet with drool and framed by a scraggly be…

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January 14, 2020 at 8:32 PM

Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment

All posts View this email in your browser   Facebook’s Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment by Ari Paul Coda (1/10/20) appears to have been the first to break the story of Instagram's Soleimani censorship, as part of the site's focus on "authoritarian tech." Instagram,…

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January 13, 2020 at 11:20 PM

CNN's Sanders Hit Piece Doesn't Pass the Smell Test

All posts View this email in your browser   CNN's Sanders Hit Piece Doesn't Pass the Smell Test by Dave Lindorff CNN (1/13/19) has an anonymously sourced hit piece out today on Bernie Sanders, claiming that at a meeting in Elizabeth Warren's home on December 18, 2018, he told her …

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January 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM

Trump's Iran Assassination... Joe Biden's Foreign Policy... Venezuela Crisis....

Trump's Iran Assassination... Joe Biden's Foreign Policy... Venezuela Crisis.... View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: January 10, 2020 FAIR's year-end fundraising drive is finished--thanks to all who gave for their gene…

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January 10, 2020 at 9:28 PM

For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó

All posts View this email in your browser   For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó  by Lucas Koerner The Washington Post (1/5/20) described Venezuelan lawmakers voting against someone other than Washington's chosen candidate to head the assembly as "sedit…

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January 10, 2020 at 4:10 PM

Gregory Shupak on Iran Assassination, Brett Hartl on Biodiversity Loss

All posts View this email in your browser   Gregory Shupak on Iran Assassination, Brett Hartl on Biodiversity Loss Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link   NBC image of Iranians mourning Qassem Soleimani (photo: Atta Kenare/AFP) Havin…

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January 10, 2020 at 1:34 AM

From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination

All posts View this email in your browser   From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination by Alan MacLeod Qassem Soleimani (cc photo: Sayyed Shahab Odin Vajedi) After Donald Trump’s election, both the New York Times and Washington Post saw huge jum…

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January 9, 2020 at 9:40 PM

Steady Hand Joe

All posts View this email in your browser   Steady Hand Joe by Julie Hollar For pundits, what makes a politician strong on foreign policy? Apparently doing something for a long time matters more than honesty and good judgment—and it helps if the bad choices made are the same ones …

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January 7, 2020 at 11:12 PM

Greasing the Gears of the Armageddon Engine

All posts View this email in your browser   Greasing the Gears of the Armageddon Engine by Frank Black Remember how most reporters covered that Canadian Islamic separatist movement? You know the one: It wanted to seize control of the entire provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, a…

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January 7, 2020 at 9:47 PM

'The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden'

All posts View this email in your browser   'The People With the Least Resources Are Now Shouldering the Greatest Burden' Janine Jackson interviewed educator Kevin Kumashiro about student debt forgiveness for the June 28, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tran…

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