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February 29, 2020 at 12:47 AM

Media Stoop to ‘Russian Assistance’ to Explain Sanders’ Rise

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Stoop to ‘Russian Assistance’ to Explain Sanders’ Rise Alan MacLeod   For over three years, Russia has been an issue of great concern, if not panic, in our media. Back in 2018, FAIR (7/27/18) warned that if Bernie Sanders or another …

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February 28, 2020 at 4:18 PM

Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression

All posts View article on FAIR's website Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link   This week on CounterSpin: When Florida passed an amendment to return the right to vote to people who had …

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February 27, 2020 at 10:31 PM

WaPo Backing Limited Impeachment Was Constitutional Disaster

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Backing Limited Impeachment Was Constitutional Disaster Joshua Cho   Mehdi Hasan (Intercept, 9/26/19) was one of numerous journalists and activists who urged Democrats not to pursue a narrow impeachment strategy. FAIR (11/26/19, 2/4…

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February 27, 2020 at 4:58 PM

Media Vapors Over Vaping Cloud Public Health Goals

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Vapors Over Vaping Cloud Public Health Goals Teddy Ostrow by Teddy Ostrow The "vaping-related" injuries in NPR's headline (12/19/19) are not caused by e-cigarettes like the one in NPR's photo. There's been a moralist war on nicotin…

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February 26, 2020 at 9:30 PM

Bernie Sanders Can't Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has)

All posts View article on FAIR's website Bernie Sanders Can't Win (by as Much) Unless Youth Vote Surges (Like It Recently Has) Jim Naureckas by Jim Naureckas “The first thing is to raise hell,” said labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. “That’s always the first thing to do …

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February 25, 2020 at 10:04 PM

NYT's Look at Democratic Tax Plans Is an Orgy of Really Big Numbers

All posts View this email in your browser   NYT's Look at Democratic Tax Plans Is an Orgy of Really Big Numbers by Dean Baker I have often gone after the media on printing large numbers that are meaningless to almost all their readers. The point is that when you throw out numbers…

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February 25, 2020 at 7:10 PM

'We Have to Look at the Underpinnings of Environmental Degradation'

All posts View this email in your browser   'We Have to Look at the Underpinnings of Environmental Degradation' The February 21, 2020, episode of CounterSpin was a special archival show about environmental justice, cross-national organizing and solidarity, featuring excerpts of in…

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February 24, 2020 at 11:55 PM

Bernie Sanders Plunges to First Place

All posts View this email in your browser   Bernie Sanders Plunges to First Place by Jim Naureckas Remember when the big winner of New Hampshire was third-place finisher Amy Klobuchar (FAIR.org, 2/14/20)? “Bernie Sanders may have come first in New Hampshire, but Amy Klobuchar won,…

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February 21, 2020 at 11:05 PM

NPR vs. Bernie Sanders... 'Our' Protests & 'Theirs'... Environmental Justice....

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February 21, 2020 at 10:31 PM

'What Does Criminalizing People Get Us, and What Does It Get Them?'

All posts View this email in your browser   'What Does Criminalizing People Get Us, and What Does It Get Them?' Janine Jackson interviewed Nina Luo about decriminalizing sex work for the February 14, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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February 21, 2020 at 4:30 PM

Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity

All posts View this email in your browser   Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link New York Times (2/10/20) This week on Counter…

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February 20, 2020 at 9:17 PM

Cop-Hating Vandals or Pro-Democracy Activists?

All posts View this email in your browser   Cop-Hating Vandals or Pro-Democracy Activists? by Alan MacLeod The "cop-hating vandals" poured glue on three turnstiles and "placed large stickers throughout the subway station" (New York Post, 2/5/20). The New York Police Department (…

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February 19, 2020 at 5:40 PM

'Corporate Media Are Not Observers of the Electoral Process; They Are Participants'

All posts View this email in your browser   'Corporate Media Are Not Observers of the Electoral Process; They Are Participants' Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR’s Jim Naureckas about the Democratic primaries for the February 14, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edite…

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February 18, 2020 at 4:27 PM

Factchecking NPR’s Attempted Takedown of Bernie Sanders

All posts View this email in your browser   Factchecking NPR’s Attempted Takedown of Bernie Sanders by Robin Andersen The Iowa caucuses officially began the Democratic primary, and even in this ongoing, extended battle for the White House, Iowa remains an important marker for cand…

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February 15, 2020 at 11:47 PM

New Hampshire Primary... Bloomberg as Savior... 'No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism'....

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February 15, 2020 at 1:45 PM

'This Is an Apocalyptic Future That We're Facing'

All posts View this email in your browser   'This Is an Apocalyptic Future That We're Facing' Janine Jackson interviewed EnviroVideo’s Karl Grossman about the weaponization of space for the February 7, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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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....

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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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