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January 6, 2023 at 8:03 PM

The Right Turns Anti-LGBTQ Hate Up to 11

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Right Turns Anti-LGBTQ Hate Up to 11 Ari Paul Libs of TikTok, "one of the preeminent homophobic and transphobic spaces on Twitter" (Slate, 4/27/22),  has been permanently kicked off of TikTok.   Last summer, while waiting for coffee …

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January 6, 2023 at 4:56 PM

Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   (NBC News, 12/29/22) This week on CounterSpin: Media criticism is, at its heart, consumer advocacy. There's an unarticulated underpinning to e…

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January 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM

'There Is More Than One Solution Needed to the Problem of an Insurrection'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There Is More Than One Solution Needed to the Problem of an Insurrection' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert about the January 6 report for the December 23, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a li…

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December 30, 2022 at 10:29 PM

FINAL PUSH: Make 2023 our best year yet! 🎉

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December 30, 2022 at 3:02 PM

Best of CounterSpin 2022

All posts View article on FAIR's website Best of CounterSpin 2022 CounterSpin https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpinBestOf2022.mp3 All year long CounterSpin brings you a look, as we say, behind the headlines of the mainstream news. We ho…

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December 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM

Your support today is more important than ever.

Your support today is more important than ever. View this email in your browser   Your support today is more important than ever.   Dear FAIR Family,  We’re five days from our deadline to raise $7…

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December 24, 2022 at 12:46 AM

Prescribing Pain for Inflation... January 6 Report... False Balance

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December 24, 2022 at 12:43 AM

'Every Issue Is a Disability Issue'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Every Issue Is a Disability Issue' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative's Rebecca Vallas about the economics of disability for the December 16, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a l…

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December 24, 2022 at 12:14 AM

The Podcast Conglomerate the Media Won’t Name

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Podcast Conglomerate the Media Won’t Name Forest Hunt   News consumers hear about the titans of podcasting regularly these days: Spotify, iHeartMedia, Amazon Music. But there is one name that’s curiously absent: Liberty Media. The comp…

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December 23, 2022 at 6:08 PM

Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report

All posts View article on FAIR's website Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   Image from January 6 Report (photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images) This week on CounterSpin: The House committee on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol heard more t…

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December 22, 2022 at 11:44 PM

Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can

All posts View article on FAIR's website Can False Balance Kill You? It Sure Can Jim Naureckas   The failure to point out that an ideology is deadly represents another kind of lethal politics (Washington Post, 12/16/22). The Washington Post (12/16/22) had a recent headline: "Ca…

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December 22, 2022 at 4:00 PM

Make 2023 our most ambitious year yet!

Make 2023 our most ambitious year yet! View this email in your browser   Make 2023 our most ambitious year yet!   Dear FAIR Friend,  We’re six weeks into our 2022 year end fundraising drive, and …

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December 21, 2022 at 10:14 PM

'The Oil Companies Are the Reason We Don't Have Climate Policy'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Oil Companies Are the Reason We Don't Have Climate Policy' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Climate Integrity's Richard Wiles about the lies of the fossil fuel industry for the December 16, 2022, episode of C…

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December 20, 2022 at 6:50 PM

Small but Mighty: Support FAIR’s Work

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December 19, 2022 at 11:15 PM

Media Prescribe More 'Pain' for Workers as Inflation's Only Cure

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Prescribe More 'Pain' for Workers as Inflation's Only Cure Luca GoldMansour   Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is profit’s prophet and the corporate media are his cultish devotees, joining hands to sacrifice working people. In thi…

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December 16, 2022 at 11:13 PM

NYT's Anti-Trans Columnist... A Favor for Musk... Fossil Fuel Lies

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December 16, 2022 at 10:32 PM

Pamela Paul's Gender Agenda

All posts View article on FAIR's website Pamela Paul's Gender Agenda Julie Hollar   The New York Times for many years had a transgender contributing opinion writer, Jennifer Finney Boylan. Part of a less exclusive club than that of columnists, who appear more frequently, Boylan n…

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December 16, 2022 at 5:09 PM

Richard Wiles on Fossil Fuel Lies, Rebecca Vallas on Disability Economics

All posts View article on FAIR's website Richard Wiles on Fossil Fuel Lies, Rebecca Vallas on Disability Economics CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin221216.mp3   AP (12/10/22) This week on CounterSpin: W…

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December 14, 2022 at 11:13 PM

NYT Did Musk a Political Favor

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Did Musk a Political Favor Ari Paul   The New York Times (12/10/22) pronounces itself perplexed by Elon Musk's politics. A recent New York Times article (12/10/22) describing Twitter owner Elon Musk’s politics—which have clearly alig…

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December 14, 2022 at 5:01 PM

Noam Chomsky: “FAIR performs a unique and indispensable service”

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December 13, 2022 at 11:03 PM

'A Crucial Part of Colonization Is Taking Our Children'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'A Crucial Part of Colonization Is Taking Our Children' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Crushing Colonialism's Jen Deerinwater about efforts to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act for the December 9, 2022, episode of CounterS…

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December 9, 2022 at 11:14 PM

Homeless Scapegoating... Indigenous Adoption... Election Polls Revisited

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December 9, 2022 at 8:46 PM

In 2022 Midterms, Media Were Again Misled by Generic Ballot

All posts View article on FAIR's website In 2022 Midterms, Media Were Again Misled by Generic Ballot David W. Moore   Last October (FAIR.org, 10/3/22), I warned about “The Persistently Faulty Record of Generic Ballot Polling.” The message was that it’s dicey to predict House elec…

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December 9, 2022 at 4:33 PM

Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   Truthout (11/12/22) This week on CounterSpin: Those listeners who have heard about Haaland v. Brackeen will know that that Supreme Court case is about considerin…

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December 7, 2022 at 11:58 PM

Media's Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused People

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media's Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused People Julie Hollar   For some time now, news media have been conflating crime, homelessness and mental illness, demonizing and dehumanizing people without homes while ignori…

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December 7, 2022 at 7:24 PM

In Chaotic Times, FAIR Will Be Your Constant

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December 7, 2022 at 4:59 PM

'The Supreme Court Is Burying Its Head in the Sand'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Supreme Court Is Burying Its Head in the Sand' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed Law and Disorder Radio's Marjorie Cohn about evangelicals' Supreme Court lobbying for the December 2, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a…

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December 6, 2022 at 8:48 PM

'We Need to Transform What It Means to Be an Academic Worker; the Status Quo Is Untenable'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Need to Transform What It Means to Be an Academic Worker; the Status Quo Is Untenable' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed UC Santa Barbara's Nelson Lichtenstein about the University of California strike for the December 2, 202…

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December 2, 2022 at 11:29 PM

Ukraine Narratives... UC Strike... Bill Gates

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December 2, 2022 at 9:48 PM

NYT, WSJ Look to Hawks for Ukraine Expertise

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT, WSJ Look to Hawks for Ukraine Expertise John Kempthorne   A crucial function of a free press is to present perspectives that critically examine government actions. In major articles from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal …

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December 2, 2022 at 4:35 PM

Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals' Supreme Court Lobbying

All posts View article on FAIR's website Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals' Supreme Court Lobbying CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   Dissent (11/22/22) This week on CounterSpin: Former Vice President Mike Pence recently said with a straight face that…

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December 1, 2022 at 9:03 PM

NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to 'Doorstep of Doom'

All posts View article on FAIR's website NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to 'Doorstep of Doom' Robin Andersen   Wall Street Journal (4/27/22): "Unless the US prepares to win a nuclear war, it risks losing one." A popular cartoon aptly expresses the political ang…

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December 1, 2022 at 7:38 PM

Show Big Media Who’s Boss

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November 30, 2022 at 11:24 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine Eric Horowitz   The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion “gave access to the New York Times to report on two…

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November 29, 2022 at 8:59 PM

Maybe Bill Gates' Billions Don't Make Him an Expert on Hunger in Africa

All posts View article on FAIR's website Maybe Bill Gates' Billions Don't Make Him an Expert on Hunger in Africa Janine Jackson   The tire fire that Elon Musk seems to be making out of his new toy, Twitter, is leading some to call for an overdue, society-wide jettisoning of the w…

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November 29, 2022 at 5:09 PM

Extra! November 2022 Soundbites

All posts View article on FAIR's website Extra! November 2022 Soundbites FAIR Coverage of Dugina Bombing Put Journalists ‘on Front Lines’ When Russian journalist Darya Dugina was killed by a car bomb in Moscow in August, CNN (8/27/22) framed her death not as a terroristic attack …

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November 25, 2022 at 8:36 PM

Media Transphobia... Crypto Bro PR... Misleading Midterm Issues

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November 25, 2022 at 4:27 PM

Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa

All posts View article on FAIR's website Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   New York Times (1/31/60) This week on CounterSpin: According to Techcrunch, before its ignominious flameout, the cryptocurrency firm FTX had acquired more than 100,000 cu…

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November 23, 2022 at 11:01 PM

It’s Time to Hold News Media Accountable for Transphobia

All posts View article on FAIR's website It’s Time to Hold News Media Accountable for Transphobia Jim Naureckas   Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 2…

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November 23, 2022 at 9:52 PM

Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Misled on Issues Important to Midterm Voters David W. Moore   “The political press blew it.” So wrote Dana Milbank of the Washington Post (11/9/22), calling the fourth estate the “biggest loser of the midterm elections.” As he points…

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November 22, 2022 at 10:47 PM

'Lula's Victory Is One of the Most Impressive Political Comebacks of the Last 100 Years'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Lula's Victory Is One of the Most Impressive Political Comebacks of the Last 100 Years' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed BrasilWire's Brian Mier about the Brazilian election for the November 18, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. Th…

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November 21, 2022 at 9:41 PM

Let's Be Tenacious in 2023!

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November 19, 2022 at 6:48 PM

While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers

All posts View article on FAIR's website While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers Ari Paul   Today, you probably know who Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX are, and the details of why he and his company are front-page news are emerging at an amazing pace. Here’s the sh…

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November 19, 2022 at 2:45 PM

For Corporate Media, Sandinistas' Electoral Success Proves Their Repressiveness

All posts View article on FAIR's website For Corporate Media, Sandinistas' Electoral Success Proves Their Repressiveness John Perry   The headline in the Washington Post ahead of Nicaragua's local elections hinted at skepticism: “Nicaragua Ruling Party Seeks to Expand Hold in Loc…

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November 19, 2022 at 1:58 AM

Elon Musk... Midterms & 'Moderation'... Climate Confusion

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November 18, 2022 at 11:10 PM

Musk's Money Is Playing Old Games With New Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website Musk's Money Is Playing Old Games With New Media Ari Paul   Elon Musk's $8/month "verification" scheme predictably resulted in a flood of fake tweets. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been difficult to satirize. The company is losing …

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November 18, 2022 at 5:57 PM

Climate Confusion and Complicity at the New York Times

All posts View article on FAIR's website Climate Confusion and Complicity at the New York Times  Olivia Riggio   “Yes, Greenland’s Ice Is Melting…” The headline of the interactive New York Times opinion piece (10/28/22) by conservative columnist Bret Stephens is placed over an im…

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November 18, 2022 at 4:18 PM

Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory

All posts View article on FAIR's website Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   ABC World News Tonight (10/30/22) This week on CounterSpin: ABC World News Tonight told viewers what it thought they needed to know: "Bolsonaro Loses Brazilian Election,…

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November 17, 2022 at 3:43 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Invents Left Extremists to Make 'Moderation' the Midterm Winner

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Invents Left Extremists to Make 'Moderation' the Midterm Winner Julie Hollar   Of the many lessons to be learned from this year's midterms, in which Democrats defied historical trends to largely hold off a GOP wave, the N…

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November 16, 2022 at 5:17 PM

'Who Do We Want to Own Our Neighborhoods?'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Who Do We Want to Own Our Neighborhoods?' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CSG Advisors' Gene Slater about the affordable housing crisis for the November 11, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. ht…

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