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January 6, 2021 at 6:56 PM

‘We Structure the Market to Create Inequality’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘We Structure the Market to Create Inequality’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR’s Dean Baker about trickle-down economics for the December 25, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. CBS (12/17/…

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January 5, 2021 at 5:01 PM

Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing FAIR   A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates. One of the bigges…

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January 4, 2021 at 11:29 PM

'He Is the King of Dirty Deals'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'He Is the King of Dirty Deals' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen’s Lisa Gilbert about lame duck Donald Trump for the December 25, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.   Public Citiz…

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January 1, 2021 at 4:20 PM

Best of CounterSpin 2020

All posts View article on FAIR's website Best of CounterSpin 2020 CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS (photo: Daniel Arauz/Wikimedia) As we start a new year, longtime CounterSpin listeners will know, we revisit a few of our weekly looks behind the headlines. We call it "the best of,"…

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December 30, 2020 at 5:14 PM

Watching the Watchdogs

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December 26, 2020 at 1:13 AM

Both-Sidesing Stimulus... Saudi PR... Lame Duck Trump....

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December 25, 2020 at 6:11 PM

Lisa Gilbert on Lame Duck Trump, Dean Baker on Trickle-Down Economics

All posts View article on FAIR's website Lisa Gilbert on Lame Duck Trump, Dean Baker on Trickle-Down Economics CounterSpin   http://CounterSpin201225.mp3 Subscribe: RSS   (image: Public Citizen) This week on CounterSpin: Media critic Margaret Sullivan made a plea to journalis…

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December 24, 2020 at 7:45 PM

‘That Loss of Privacy Is the Monopoly Price’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘That Loss of Privacy Is the Monopoly Price’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed EFF’s Mitch Stoltz about breaking up Google for the December 18, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.  Janine Jackson: …

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December 23, 2020 at 9:19 PM

‘Freedom Is Blossoming’: After Dismembering a Journalist, Saudi Arabia Goes on a PR Spree

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘Freedom Is Blossoming’: After Dismembering a Journalist, Saudi Arabia Goes on a PR Spree Alan MacLeod   CNN (12/5/20) describes mass arrests ordered by Mohammed bin Salman as a way "to shake up the kingdom in a way his predecessors dared…

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December 23, 2020 at 7:40 PM

‘Our Government Needs to Protect Workers, Not Corporations’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘Our Government Needs to Protect Workers, Not Corporations’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Jessica Martinez about worker safety and Covid relief for the December 18, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…

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December 22, 2020 at 10:06 PM

Both-Sidesing the Stimulus Bill

All posts View article on FAIR's website Both-Sidesing the Stimulus Bill Julie Hollar   The Washington Post caption (12/20/20) reads: "Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle each blamed the other for the long stint between the last coronavirus relief package and the deal reac…

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December 21, 2020 at 3:59 PM

Not Even Halfway to Our Goal—We Need You!

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December 20, 2020 at 2:07 AM

Erasing Economic Warfare... Moscow's 'Mystery Weapon'... Media Literacy....

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December 19, 2020 at 3:54 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Erases US Economic War Against Venezuela Bryce Greene   The New York Times (5/12/20)  describes "a difficult time for Venezuela, as the country grapples with deep economic challenges and a breakdown of its health care sy…

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December 18, 2020 at 8:52 PM

WaPo Warns Progressive Dems: They Could Win

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Warns Progressive Dems: They Could Win Jeff Cohen A standard bias in news coverage in elite outlets (Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, etc.) is centrism—using an allegedly objective voice to warn against or critique “extremism” of…

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December 18, 2020 at 5:44 PM

Jessica Martinez on Gutting Worker Protections, Mitch Stoltz on Breaking Up Big Tech

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jessica Martinez on Gutting Worker Protections, Mitch Stoltz on Breaking Up Big Tech CounterSpin (photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) This week on CounterSpin: More than 308,000 US women, men and children have died of Covid-19. Th…

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December 17, 2020 at 11:12 PM

‘This Order Puts the Weight of the Federal Government Behind Anti-Antiracism’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘This Order Puts the Weight of the Federal Government Behind Anti-Antiracism’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed law professor and legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw about Trump’s "Equity Gag Order" for the December 11, 2020, episod…

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December 16, 2020 at 11:16 PM

A CIA Officer Has a Headache. Media Blame Russia.

All posts View article on FAIR's website A CIA Officer Has a Headache. Media Blame Russia. Alan MacLeod   Julia Ioffe (GQ, 10/20/20) reported that "dozens of American diplomats, spies and government employees" were "targets of what some experts and doctors now believe were attac…

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December 11, 2020 at 11:18 PM

Biden's Corporate Counselors... Kim Crenshaw Interview... School Reopening....

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December 11, 2020 at 8:10 PM

‘US Leadership’—and Other Euphemisms for War

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘US Leadership’—and Other Euphemisms for War Gregory Shupak   Frederick Kempe (CNBC, 11/21/20) calls on Biden to restore "US global leadership" to "counter the growing influence of China." Joe Biden doesn’t become president for a month a…

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December 11, 2020 at 6:06 PM

Kimberle Crenshaw on the Equity Gag Order

All posts View article on FAIR's website Kimberle Crenshaw on the Equity Gag Order CounterSpin   http://CounterSpin201211.mp3 Subscribe: RSS (image: Breitbart, 9/4/20) This week on CounterSpin: "This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sighting…

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December 10, 2020 at 7:41 PM

Watchdog Journalism in the Public Interest

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December 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM

'These Executions, Disturbing as They Are, Have Flown Largely Under the Radar'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'These Executions, Disturbing as They Are, Have Flown Largely Under the Radar' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed  the Intercept’s Liliana Segura about Trump’s execution spree for the December 4, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This…

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December 9, 2020 at 10:27 PM

NYT Cheerleads School Reopening as Covid Spikes

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Cheerleads School Reopening as Covid Spikes Ari Paul   The New York Times (11/11/20) editorialized in favor of keeping schools open, "given the evidence of how little the virus has spread there." New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s …

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December 8, 2020 at 11:01 PM

‘The Chairmanship of Ajit Pai Has Been a Disaster’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘The Chairmanship of Ajit Pai Has Been a Disaster’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press’s Gaurav Laroia about Ajit Pai’s FCC for the December 4, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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December 8, 2020 at 9:38 PM

ACTION ALERT: At NYT, Now You See Corporate Influence, Now You Don't

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: At NYT, Now You See Corporate Influence, Now You Don't Julie Hollar   A New York Times report (11/12/20) noted that "Biden’s [OMB] team included executives from Amazon Web Services, Lyft, Airbnb and a vice president of WestE…

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December 4, 2020 at 11:03 PM

Greenwald vs. Intercept... Student Debt... Iran Scientist Assassination....

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December 4, 2020 at 10:08 PM

Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua

All posts View article on FAIR's website Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua John Perry   Reveal (10/21/20) Reports by Reveal (10/21/20) and PBS NewsHour (10/20/21) called for a boycott of  “conflict beef” from Nicaragua. The Center for In…

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December 4, 2020 at 5:50 PM

Liliana Segura on Trump's Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai's FCC

All posts View article on FAIR's website Liliana Segura on Trump's Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai's FCC CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link   (BBC/Getty Images) This week on CounterSpin: The lame duck White…

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December 3, 2020 at 11:06 PM

‘Emancipation Never Really Came to Agriculture’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘Emancipation Never Really Came to Agriculture’ Janine Jackson   The November 27, 2020, episode of CounterSpin featured an archival interview with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Ricardo Salvador on the US’s dysfunctional food system, o…

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December 3, 2020 at 10:07 PM

Critics of Cancelling Student Debt Aren't Afraid It Won't Work—They're Afraid It Will

All posts View article on FAIR's website Critics of Cancelling Student Debt Aren't Afraid It Won't Work—They're Afraid It Will Ari Paul   Bloomberg (11/23/20) warns that one debt cancellation plan "would cost almost $370 billion, about $150 billion of which would accrue to the t…

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December 2, 2020 at 11:06 PM

When an Official Enemy Is Assassinated, Corporate Media Roll Out the Pretexts

All posts View article on FAIR's website When an Official Enemy Is Assassinated, Corporate Media Roll Out the Pretexts Joshua Cho   The Washington Post (11/28/20) identified  murdered scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the "architect of Iran’s disbanded effort to build a nuclear we…

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December 1, 2020 at 5:00 PM

'The Ones With the Most Risk Are the Ones We're Most Ill-Prepared to Reach with the Vaccine'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Ones With the Most Risk Are the Ones We're Most Ill-Prepared to Reach with the Vaccine' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed U Penn’s Ravi Gupta about vaccine infrastructure for the November 20, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. Th…

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December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Give Big Media a Hard Time on Giving Tuesday

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November 30, 2020 at 10:24 PM

Greenwald Splits With Intercept Over Visions of Editing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Greenwald Splits With Intercept Over Visions of Editing Eoin Higgins   Less than a week before voters across the US headed to the polls in the 2020 presidential election, famed journalist Glenn Greenwald made a stunning announcement: He wa…

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November 30, 2020 at 3:54 AM

Election Theft Acknowledged... Latinx Vote... Stacey Abrams vs. Donald Trump....

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November 30, 2020 at 3:09 AM

'Trump Has Let the Military Establishment Do Everything It Wants to Do'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Trump Has Let the Military Establishment Do Everything It Wants to Do' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain about Trump’s war on Yemen for the November 20, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lig…

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November 27, 2020 at 3:16 PM

Ricardo Salvador on US's Dysfunctional Food System

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ricardo Salvador on US's Dysfunctional Food System CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: As those that celebrate tuck into our Thanksgiving dinner, this ye…

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November 27, 2020 at 2:26 AM

NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump

All posts View article on FAIR's website NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump Ari Paul   It’s very likely that Stacey Abrams is not governor of Georgia today because in 2018, she and thousands of the state’s voters were victims of voter suppression that prop…

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November 26, 2020 at 2:01 AM

Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Begin to Acknowledge GOP Coup Attempt Joshua Cho   Even though President Donald Trump had telegraphed his intent months in advance to steal the 2020 election, by planning to get judges, state legislators and/or the Electora…

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November 25, 2020 at 7:29 PM

Keep Up the Fight!

Keep Up the Fight! —Pushing Back on Corporate Media in 2021! View this email in your browser Keep Up the Fight— Pushing Back on Corporate Media in 2021! Dear FAIR Friends & Supporters, Over the last year, we have documente…

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November 24, 2020 at 9:35 PM

Latinx Voting Surge Boosted Biden’s Victory—but That’s Not the Story Corporate Media Want to Tell

All posts View article on FAIR's website Latinx Voting Surge Boosted Biden’s Victory—but That’s Not the Story Corporate Media Want to Tell Julie Hollar     As journalists and pundits dissect exit polls to find new stories to tell about the 2020 election, the role of voters of col…

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November 22, 2020 at 1:32 AM

Election Coverage Failures... Crying Wolf on Electoral Fraud... Messaging vs. Policy....

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November 21, 2020 at 1:34 AM

'Media Sources in the Democratic Party Tend to Be More Right-Wing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Media Sources in the Democratic Party Tend to Be More Right-Wing' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR’s Julie Hollar about post-election media for the November 13, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tran…

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November 20, 2020 at 11:36 PM

Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYT—if Targets Are Official Enemies

All posts View article on FAIR's website Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYT—if Targets Are Official Enemies Alan MacLeod   President Donald Trump’s categorical refusal to accept what seems like an inevitable and increasingly crushing election loss has many in media rightl…

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November 20, 2020 at 9:59 PM

Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media’s Messaging Debate Eclipses Policies—and the Crises They Address Dorothee Benz   Voters, according to Rep. Kurt Schrader (D.–Oregon), are “very afraid that this will become a supernanny state, and their ability to do things on their …

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November 20, 2020 at 6:47 PM

Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump's War on Yemen

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump's War on Yemen CounterSpin   Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link   (photo: Christian Emmer) This week on CounterSpin: It isn't…

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November 20, 2020 at 12:10 AM

‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’

All posts View article on FAIR's website ‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’ Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens about pandemic unemployment for the November 13, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is…

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November 17, 2020 at 10:33 PM

New York's Chait Boosts Charter Schools—but No Longer Mentions Spouse's Policy Role in Charter School Industry

All posts View article on FAIR's website New York's Chait Boosts Charter Schools—but No Longer Mentions Spouse's Policy Role in Charter School Industry Eoin Higgins   Jonathan Chait (image: HarperCollins) New York magazine political writer Jonathan Chait penned a column last mo…

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November 13, 2020 at 9:32 PM

Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions

All posts View article on FAIR's website Absolving Trump Means Erasing the Harm Done to Millions Janine Jackson   Rejecting calls for a truth commission, Jill Lepore (Washington Post, 10/16/20) argues that "what the nation needs, pretty urgently, is self-reflection, not only fro…

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