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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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November 13, 2020 at 6:25 PM

Farcical Coverage of Julian Assange's Farcical Hearing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Farcical Coverage of Julian Assange's Farcical Hearing Joshua Cho   The Wall Street Journal (9/7/20) reported that WikiLeaks published "a huge trove of classified material that painted a bleak picture of the American campaigns in Iraq and…

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November 13, 2020 at 5:13 PM

Julie Hollar on Moving Democrats to the Right, Josh Bivens on Pandemic Unemployment

All posts View article on FAIR's website Julie Hollar on Moving Democrats to the Right, Josh Bivens on Pandemic Unemployment CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: After a historic election turnout…

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November 11, 2020 at 10:00 PM

'Proposition 22 Is a Backlash to Victories Workers Have Had'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Proposition 22 Is a Backlash to Victories Workers Have Had' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Rey Fuentes about California’s Proposition 22 for the November 6, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.  …

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November 10, 2020 at 10:45 PM

When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left

All posts View article on FAIR's website When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left Julie Hollar   Joe Biden hadn't even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, b…

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November 9, 2020 at 8:58 PM

'These Lawsuits Are Incredibly Rinky-Dink'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'These Lawsuits Are Incredibly Rinky-Dink' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Voting Booth’s Steven Rosenfeld about vote counting for the November 6, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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November 6, 2020 at 11:56 PM

Resisting the Trump Coup... Youth Voters... Blaming BLM....

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November 6, 2020 at 10:49 PM

Exit Lines: Campaign Analysts Miss the Signal in the Noise

All posts View article on FAIR's website Exit Lines: Campaign Analysts Miss the Signal in the Noise Jim Naureckas   A lot of men were biting dogs in pre- and post-election analysis. “Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters but Gaining Among Black and Hispanic Americans,” 538 (10…

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November 6, 2020 at 5:45 PM

Steven Rosenfeld on Vote Counting, Rey Fuentes on Rigging the Gig Economy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Steven Rosenfeld on Vote Counting, Rey Fuentes on Rigging the Gig Economy CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: As we record on Thursday, November 5, corpo…

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November 6, 2020 at 1:20 AM

Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Still Refuse to Report the Real News: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election Jim Naureckas   Although I’ve written (FAIR.org, 9/15/20) about US media’s refusal to forthrightly report that President Donald Trump is trying to steal the …

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November 4, 2020 at 11:32 PM

Media Fail to Prepare Public for Potential Trump Coup

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Fail to Prepare Public for Potential Trump Coup Robin Andersen   On Sunday evening, two days before Election Day, Trump told reporters in Charlotte, North Carolina, “We’re going to go in the night of, as soon as that election is ove…

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November 4, 2020 at 12:44 AM

Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Young Voices Largely Missing in Election Coverage FAIR   Harvard’s Institute of Politics (10/26/20) reported last week that 63% of  respondents aged 18–29 said they will “definitely be voting,” highlighting the “contrast to 47% during this…

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November 3, 2020 at 9:53 PM

'We Have the World's Largest System to Imprison and Exile Immigrants'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Have the World's Largest System to Imprison and Exile Immigrants' Janine Jackson   The October 30, 2020, episode of CounterSpin was a compendium of archival interviews about Donald Trump and immigration. This is a lightly edited transc…

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November 3, 2020 at 7:50 PM

Corporate Media Reverse Reality by Blaming BLM Protesters for Everything

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Reverse Reality by Blaming BLM Protesters for Everything Joshua Cho   Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, this year has also seen unprecedented mass uprisings against the US’s white supremacist police state after the death…

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November 1, 2020 at 6:34 PM

'Court Packing'... 60 Minutes Interviews... Philadelphia Protests....

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October 30, 2020 at 11:31 PM

It May Not Be Sunny in Philadelphia, But the Town’s Not Burning Either

All posts View article on FAIR's website It May Not Be Sunny in Philadelphia, But the Town’s Not Burning Either Dave Lindorff   Philadelphia — I was awakened at 8 a.m. Wednesday by a worried call from a good friend, journalist and radical prairie activist Michael Caddell in Kansa…

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October 30, 2020 at 10:03 PM

'The Candidates Who Are Opposed to Fracking Are Winning'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Candidates Who Are Opposed to Fracking Are Winning' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Mitch Jones about fracking’s damages for the October 23, 2020 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …

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October 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM

'We Have a Long History of Criminalizing Communities of Color Through Drugs'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Have a Long History of Criminalizing Communities of Color Through Drugs' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Drug Policy Alliance’s Matt Sutton about victims of the drug war for the October 23, 2020, episode of CounterSpin.This…

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October 30, 2020 at 4:32 PM

US Media Lie About Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism—Before, During and After Election

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Lie About Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism—Before, During and After Election Gregory Shupak   When Bolivia’s democratically elected President Evo Morales, representing the party known as the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), was…

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October 30, 2020 at 3:48 PM

Special Program on Trump & Immigration

All posts View article on FAIR's website Special Program on Trump & Immigration CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (photo: USCBP) This week on CounterSpin: As we record on October 29, we don't know what will happe…

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October 28, 2020 at 10:08 PM

How Not to Interview a Toddler

All posts View article on FAIR's website How Not to Interview a Toddler Dorothee Benz   The headline news from President Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes interview, taped on October 20, was that he walked out and ended the interview early, a fact CBS played up ahead of the October 25 ai…

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October 26, 2020 at 8:30 PM

Journalists Pick Sides When They Call Adding Justices 'Court Packing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Journalists Pick Sides When They Call Adding Justices 'Court Packing' Julie Hollar   As Republicans ram through Trump's third Supreme Court nomination with an election underway, Democrats are increasingly contemplating expanding the court.…

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October 23, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Wealth Tax... 'Cancel Culture'... Democracy in Bolivia....

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October 23, 2020 at 8:09 PM

Panic Over ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Another Example of Right-Wing Projection

All posts View article on FAIR's website Panic Over ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Another Example of Right-Wing Projection Ari Paul   Fox News' Tucker Carlson, who makes a living talking about how terrible the left's ideas are, has a sideline complaining about the left's intolerance to id…

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October 23, 2020 at 6:46 PM

After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup

All posts View article on FAIR's website After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup Bryce Greene   Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party won a decisive victory in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday, with its candidate Luis Arce apparentl…

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October 23, 2020 at 5:25 PM

Mitch Jones on Fracking's Hazards, Matt Sutton on Drug War's Victims

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mitch Jones on Fracking's Hazards, Matt Sutton on Drug War's Victims CounterSpin Play Stop pop out X MP3 Link (cc photo: WildEarth Guardians) This week on CounterSpin: Earlier this y…

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