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November 12, 2022 at 1:28 AM

Midterms & Crime... China Congress... Housing Crisis

Midterms & Crime... China Congress... Housing Crisis Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: November 11, 2022 Here are the stories FAIR has been worki…
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November 12, 2022 at 1:13 AM

US Media Searched for Crisis at China Party Congress

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Searched for Crisis at China Party Congress Eric Horowitz   For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reas…
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November 11, 2022 at 3:25 PM

Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   New York Times (6/24/22) This week on CounterSpin: As Eric Horowitz noted at FAIR.org, a lot of elite media coverage of housing problems ha…
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November 11, 2022 at 2:39 AM

Media Muddled Midterms by Simplifying Crime's Complexities

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Muddled Midterms by Simplifying Crime's Complexities Ari Paul   Fearmongering about crime in Democratic states and cities was certainly central to the Republican Party’s midterm elections strategy (Vox, 11/3/22), although at this poi…
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November 10, 2022 at 10:36 PM

Prioritizing Fortunetelling Over Reporting Poses a Danger to Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Prioritizing Fortunetelling Over Reporting Poses a Danger to Democracy Julie Hollar   Most people who follow corporate news were probably surprised by the midterm election outcomes, which saw Democrats hold far more seats than predicted. "…
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November 9, 2022 at 8:12 PM

'Intervention Is Actively Destabilizing the Situation'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Intervention Is Actively Destabilizing the Situation' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR's Jake Johnston about US intervention in Haiti for the November 4, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. h…
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November 9, 2022 at 4:51 PM

'This Case Was Never About Defending Asian Americans'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Case Was Never About Defending Asian Americans' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Coalition for a Diverse Harvard's Jeannie Park about affirmative action at Harvard University for the November 4, 2022, episode of CounterSpi…
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November 4, 2022 at 10:40 PM

Starbucks & Press Freedom... Barrett's Unbanned Book... Harvard & Racism

Starbucks & Press Freedom... Barrett's Unbanned Book... Harvard & Racism Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: November 4, 2022 Here are the stor…
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November 4, 2022 at 9:50 PM

The Right Thinks Publishers Have No Right Not to Publish the Right

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Right Thinks Publishers Have No Right Not to Publish the Right Ari Paul   When hundreds of literary figures and employees of Penguin Random House took issue with the publisher’s $2 million book deal with right-wing Supreme Court Justic…
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November 4, 2022 at 3:42 PM

Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS   New York Times (10/21/19) This week on CounterSpin: In 2019, the New York Times reported on Haiti's hardships with a story head…
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November 3, 2022 at 10:27 PM

'This Is America. That's the Kind of Trial Mumia Abu-Jamal Had.'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Is America. That's the Kind of Trial Mumia Abu-Jamal Had.' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Prison Radio's Noelle Hanrahan for a Mumia Abu-Jamal update for the October 28, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly ed…
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November 2, 2022 at 10:19 PM

Trump Judge Allows Starbucks to Assail Press Freedom

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump Judge Allows Starbucks to Assail Press Freedom Ari Paul   A Starbucks barista/organizer told the Washington Post (10/29/22), “It violates every journalistic standard, and is designed to stymie news coverage.” Notorious anti-union c…
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October 28, 2022 at 10:36 PM

Haiti Intervention... Politico's Abrams Hit... Fetterman & Disability

Haiti Intervention... Politico's Abrams Hit... Fetterman & Disability Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 28, 2022 Here are the stories FAI…
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October 28, 2022 at 6:36 PM

The Senate Can Improve Lives by Confirming Sohn to FCC

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Senate Can Improve Lives by Confirming Sohn to FCC Janine Jackson   October 26 marked one year since President Joe Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission. Since then, as the group Free Press (10/26/22) notes…
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October 28, 2022 at 4:34 PM

Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update

All posts View article on FAIR's website Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   This week on CounterSpin: A 1995 Washington Post story led with a macabre account from the widow of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, about how when her h…
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October 27, 2022 at 10:19 PM

Mainland Media Fail to Ask Why Puerto Rico Requires 'Resilience'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mainland Media Fail to Ask Why Puerto Rico Requires 'Resilience' James Baratta   The people of Puerto Rico woke up on the morning of September 19 only to relive a nightmare. Two days before Hurricane Maria’s five-year anniversary, on Septe…
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October 27, 2022 at 8:02 PM

Politico Airs Flimsy Case Against Abrams and Voting Rights

All posts View article on FAIR's website Politico Airs Flimsy Case Against Abrams and Voting Rights Ari Paul   The name Stacey Abrams, a Democrat running for governor of Georgia, is synonymous with the fight against voter suppression. Since her 2018 loss to current governor Brian…
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October 26, 2022 at 10:34 PM

Framing Disability as Disqualification in Fetterman/Oz Debate

All posts View article on FAIR's website Framing Disability as Disqualification in Fetterman/Oz Debate Julie Hollar   After NBC's roundly criticized interview (10/11/22) of Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, journalists covering Fetterman's race ought to…
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October 26, 2022 at 3:45 PM

"It's Extra Problematic When the Implications Are the End of Democracy"

All posts View article on FAIR's website "It's Extra Problematic When the Implications Are the End of Democracy" Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR's Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas for the October 21, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. …
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October 25, 2022 at 4:04 PM

Who Is This "Haiti" That's Appealing for Intervention?

All posts View article on FAIR's website Who Is This "Haiti" That's Appealing for Intervention? Jane Regan Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again. And the East Coast establishment media—which have on occasion remembered that Haiti is a near neighbor and has been rav…
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October 21, 2022 at 9:57 PM

Landlord Lamentations...Understanding Midterm Coverage...Tulsi Gabbard Headlines

Landlord Lamentations...Understanding Midterm Coverage...Tulsi Gabbard Headlines Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 21, 2022 Here are the stor…
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October 21, 2022 at 7:37 PM

Media Narratives Shield Landlords From a Crisis of Their Own Making

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Narratives Shield Landlords From a Crisis of Their Own Making Eric Horowitz   As landlords continue their relentless pursuit of profits, and politicians allow pandemic-era eviction moratoriums to expire, the human toll of a fundament…
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October 21, 2022 at 2:58 PM

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms

All posts View article on FAIR's website Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   Guardian (10/20/22) This week on CounterSpin: This midterm is a big-picture election. It's not just about the laws and policies and priorities governing our …
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October 20, 2022 at 8:26 PM

If a Democrat Fails Into Fox News, Should It Make a Sound?

All posts View article on FAIR's website If a Democrat Fails Into Fox News, Should It Make a Sound? Ari Paul   The announcement by former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that she was leaving a Democratic Party driven by “cowardly wokeness,” under the “control of an elitist cabal” which…
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October 15, 2022 at 1:59 AM

Haitian vs. Ukrainian Refugees... 21st Century Organizing... Cryptocurrency....

Haitian vs. Ukrainian Refugees... 21st Century Organizing... Cryptocurrency.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 14, 2022 Here are the stori…
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October 14, 2022 at 10:42 PM

'People Are Taking Inspiration From Union Victories at Amazon and Starbucks'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'People Are Taking Inspiration From Union Victories at Amazon and Starbucks' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Jacobin's John Logan about Amazon and Starbucks organizing for the October 7, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a …
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October 14, 2022 at 7:36 PM

WaPo Wants US 'Beacon' for Ukraine Refugees—but Not for Haitians

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Wants US  'Beacon' for Ukraine Refugees—but Not for Haitians Julie Hollar   The notorious incident in Del Rio, Texas, where US border patrol agents on horseback were photographed apparently wielding long reins as whips against Haitian…
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October 14, 2022 at 2:19 PM

Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS   This week on CounterSpin: Media watchers may know that Katie Halper was fired from her job at Hill TV because she did a thin…
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October 8, 2022 at 12:29 AM

Nord Stream... Katie Halper... Lula... Azov....

Nord Stream... Katie Halper... Lula... Azov.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: October 7, 2022 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for t…
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October 7, 2022 at 10:42 PM

Katie Halper Violated Media Taboo Against Israel Criticism

All posts View article on FAIR's website Katie Halper Violated Media Taboo Against Israel Criticism Luca GoldMansour   After turning in the draft of an op-ed monologue critical of Israel, journalist Katie Halper was fired from her new post at the Hill TV’s political commentary sh…
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October 7, 2022 at 9:54 PM

US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack Bryce Greene   Multiple explosions last week off the coast of Poland damaged both the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, shutting down one and preventing t…
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October 7, 2022 at 5:53 PM

'The Moment Black People Showed Up, We Responded With Violence'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Moment Black People Showed Up, We Responded With Violence' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Haitian Bridge Alliance's Guerline Jozef about Haitian refugee abuse for the September 30, 2022, episode  of CounterSpin. This is a…
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October 7, 2022 at 3:37 PM

John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing

All posts View article on FAIR's website John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS   This week on CounterSpin: Amazon, the seemingly insatiable megacorporation, still refuses to acknowledge the union at its Staten Island facility known as JFK8, e…
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October 6, 2022 at 7:10 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Celebrates Neo-Nazi Azov Unit

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Celebrates Neo-Nazi Azov Unit Jim Naureckas   Three years ago, describing an Australian white supremacist charged with massacring 49 people in New Zealand, the New York Times (3/15/19) wrote: "On his flak jacket was a sym…
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October 6, 2022 at 4:39 PM

'Puerto Rico Has Become a Microcosm for the Worst Kind of Capitalist Ideas'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Puerto Rico Has Become a Microcosm for the Worst Kind of Capitalist Ideas' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Center for Popular Democracy's Julio López Varona about Puerto Rico colonialism for the  September 30, 2022, episode of…
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October 5, 2022 at 2:35 PM

Media Spin Lula Victory as Defeat

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Spin Lula Victory as Defeat Brian Mier   From the way that the Anglo media are treating the October 2 Brazilian first-round presidential elections, a casual news consumer may get the impression that the Brazilian Workers Party suffer…
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October 3, 2022 at 4:09 PM

The Persistently Faulty Record of Generic Ballot Polling

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Persistently Faulty Record of Generic Ballot Polling David W. Moore In midterm elections, the president’s party typically loses House seats, especially in the president’s first term, and in particular when the president’s approval rati…
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September 30, 2022 at 9:53 PM

Biden' vs. Charles' Speeches...Palestinian Erasure...Puerto Rico Colonialism

Biden' vs. Charles' Speeches...Palestinian Erasure...Puerto Rico Colonialism Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: September 30, 2022 Here are the storie…
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September 30, 2022 at 8:48 PM

King Mourns Mother? Breaking News. Democracy Under Threat? Not So Much.

All posts View article on FAIR's website King Mourns Mother? Breaking News. Democracy Under Threat? Not So Much. Olivia Riggio President Joe Biden on September 1 delivered a roughly 25-minute primetime speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia about Trumpism's threat to US de…
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September 30, 2022 at 5:32 PM

Palestinian Erasure Starts in Preschool—With Sesame Street's Endorsement

All posts View article on FAIR's website Palestinian Erasure Starts in Preschool—With Sesame Street's Endorsement Nora Lester Murad   Many children in the United States will never meet a Palestinian in person, and if they do, they may need to overcome the negative images and ster…
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September 30, 2022 at 4:18 PM

Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse

All posts View article on FAIR's website Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin220930Name.mp3   (New York, 9/22/22) This…
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September 27, 2022 at 9:59 PM

'There's a Lot of Jubilance and Healing in Reparations'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There's a Lot of Jubilance and Healing in Reparations' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Alicia Bell and Collette Watson about media reparations for the September 23, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transc…
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September 23, 2022 at 9:58 PM

Media Reparations...Bolsanaro Misinformation...Perpetuating Trumpism

Media Reparations...Bolsanaro Misinformation...Perpetuating Trumpism Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: September 25, 2022 Here are the stories FAIR h…
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September 23, 2022 at 7:46 PM

US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard Luca GoldMansour   After the August 20 car-bomb assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultranationalist political philosopher, US media outlets quickly bra…
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September 23, 2022 at 3:14 PM

Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations

All posts View article on FAIR's website Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   Newspaper ad from the Freedom on the Move database. This week on CounterSpin: If US news media never used the terms "wake-up call" or "racial reckoning"…
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September 21, 2022 at 4:18 PM

John Miller 'Chose to Lie About Something That's Well-Documented'

All posts View article on FAIR's website John Miller 'Chose to Lie About Something That's Well-Documented' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Muslim Advocates' Sumayyah Waheed about CNN's John Miller for the September 16, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly e…
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September 20, 2022 at 9:04 PM

Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography

All posts View article on FAIR's website Biden's Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography Julie Hollar   More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan's central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban's military victory, the US has announced it will use…
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September 20, 2022 at 12:29 AM

PBS and BBC Team Up to Misinform About Brazil's Bolsonaro

All posts View article on FAIR's website PBS and BBC Team Up to Misinform About Brazil's Bolsonaro Brian Mier   Both the US and British governments supported the rise of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Future Prime Minister Liz Truss had secret meetings with the futu…
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September 16, 2022 at 11:05 PM

Take Action on CNN's John Miller... Inflation Coverage...

Take Action on CNN's John Miller... Inflation Coverage... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: September 16, 2022 Here are the stories FAIR has been wor…
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September 16, 2022 at 3:21 PM

Sumayyah Waheed on CNN's Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sumayyah Waheed on CNN's Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS   CNN's John Miller This week on CounterSpin: Journalist-turned-cop-turned-journalist-turned-cop-turned-journalist John Miller make…
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