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March 24, 2023 at 3:39 PM

Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later

All posts View article on FAIR's website Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230324.mp3   New York Times (3/18/23) This week on CounterSpin: In the immed…

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March 22, 2023 at 9:39 PM

20 Years Later, NYT Still Can't Face Its Iraq War Shame

All posts View article on FAIR's website 20 Years Later, NYT Still Can't Face Its Iraq War Shame Ari Paul   On the 20th anniversary of the US- and British-led invasion of Iraq, the New York Times continued to dedicate itself to a waffling narrative, one that writes out most of hi…

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March 17, 2023 at 10:06 PM

Trumpism at FCC... Right Defends Big Tech... Cop City

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March 17, 2023 at 8:34 PM

ACTION ALERT: Trump Rules Remain at FCC as Democrats Cave to Big Cable, Fox News

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: Trump Rules Remain at FCC as Democrats Cave to Big Cable, Fox News Jim Naureckas   Remember Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer Trump put in charge of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)? When he gutted net neutrality…

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March 17, 2023 at 3:08 PM

Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests

All posts View article on FAIR's website Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230317.mp3   (CC photo: Chad Davis) This week on CounterSpin: If there are ideas, tools or t…

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March 16, 2023 at 6:22 PM

'The Whole System Is Stacked Against a Person With a Disability'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Whole System Is Stacked Against a Person With a Disability' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative’s Kim Knackstedt about disability policy for the March 10, 2023, episode of CounterS…

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March 15, 2023 at 5:25 PM

'Let's Target Job Creation to These Forgotten Places and People'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Let's Target Job Creation to These Forgotten Places and People' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR's Algernon Austin about race and unemployment for the March 10, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transc…

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March 14, 2023 at 10:10 PM

Wrath at Khan: Right Sets Sights at FTC for Regulating Tech

All posts View article on FAIR's website Wrath at Khan: Right Sets Sights at FTC for Regulating Tech Ari Paul   The New York Post (3/8/23) charged that "Big Brother" was going after Elon Musk for "dar[ing to] expose the federal government’s lies on Covid and its collusion with t…

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March 10, 2023 at 11:54 PM

Right-Wing Censorship... WaPo's All-White Editorialists... 'Grooming'

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March 10, 2023 at 11:18 PM

Anonymous Sources Are Newsworthy—When They Talk to NYT, Not Seymour Hersh

All posts View article on FAIR's website Anonymous Sources Are Newsworthy—When They Talk to NYT, Not Seymour Hersh David Knox   When the New York Times (3/7/23) makes a claim based on anonymous US officials, other media take note—because everyone knows anonymous US officials wou…

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March 10, 2023 at 9:34 PM

A Taste of What's in Store if Right-Wing Zealots Get Green Light to Sue Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website A Taste of What's in Store if Right-Wing Zealots Get Green Light to Sue Media Ari Paul   Michael Knowles at CPAC (3/4/23): "Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life." Michael Knowles, host of the Daily Wire’s right-wing Michael…

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March 10, 2023 at 7:12 PM

WaPo's All-White Edit Board Decides DC Can't Be Trusted With Democracy After All

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo's All-White Edit Board Decides DC Can't Be Trusted With Democracy After All  Julie Hollar   The Washington Post (3/3/23) blamed the DC Council for forcing Biden to choose "public safety over home rule for the capital city." Presiden…

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March 10, 2023 at 4:43 PM

Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race

All posts View article on FAIR's website Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230310.mp3   Judy Heumann This week on CounterSp…

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March 9, 2023 at 5:39 PM

Right-Wing Media’s 'Grooming' Rhetoric Has Nothing to Do With Concern for Children

All posts View article on FAIR's website Right-Wing Media’s 'Grooming' Rhetoric Has Nothing to Do With Concern for Children Olivia Riggio   Tucker Carlson (Fox News, 9/19/22) invents an imaginary phenomenon in which young children are being trained in sexual practices by element…

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March 8, 2023 at 8:38 PM

'The Water Crisis Is a Manifestation of Jim Crow Politics'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Water Crisis Is a Manifestation of Jim Crow Politics' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition's Makani Themba about Jackson, Mississippi's crisis for the March 3, 2023, episode of CounterSp…

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March 7, 2023 at 10:31 PM

Scary Headlines Hype Dangers Rarely Faced by Tourists in Mexico

All posts View article on FAIR's website Scary Headlines Hype Dangers Rarely Faced by Tourists in Mexico Saurav Sarkar   "Reconsider travel" to Mexico, asks USA Today (10/2/22)? Cancun has a relatively high homicide rate, but it's 24% lower than Baltimore's, which we haven't see…

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March 3, 2023 at 11:50 PM

Police Killings... DeSantis vs. 1st Amendment... Nord Strom Blackout

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March 3, 2023 at 10:49 PM

Major US Outlets Found Hersh's Nord Strom Scoop Too Hot to Handle

All posts View article on FAIR's website Major US Outlets Found Hersh's Nord Strom Scoop Too Hot to Handle David Knox   Scores of hits from publications across the globe pop up from an internet search for veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that the US destroyed …

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March 3, 2023 at 4:46 PM

Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis

All posts View article on FAIR's website Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230303.mp3   (Image: Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition) This week on CounterSpin: Media are c…

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March 2, 2023 at 4:52 PM

Nicaragua's 'Political Prisoners' Would Be Criminals by US Standards

All posts View article on FAIR's website Nicaragua's 'Political Prisoners' Would Be Criminals by US Standards  John Perry   The New York Times (2/9/23) reports that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega "rose to power after helping overthrow another notorious Nicaraguan dictator, A…

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March 1, 2023 at 10:07 PM

DeSantis' War on Florida's Press Is Designed to Hit Nationwide

All posts View article on FAIR's website DeSantis' War on Florida's Press Is Designed to Hit Nationwide Ari Paul   The Hill (10/10/22) reported that DeSantis "has surged in recent national polls, propelled by his willingness to position himself at the epicenter of the culture wa…

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February 28, 2023 at 10:05 PM

Bret Stephens Says Journalists Admitting Values Would 'End United States'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Bret Stephens Says Journalists Admitting Values Would 'End United States' Conor Smyth   Leonard Downie (Washington Post, 1/30/23) quotes approvingly: "Decisions about which news to cover can reflect an organization’s values, whether or no…

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February 28, 2023 at 8:01 PM

Tyre Nichols Was One of Too Many

All posts View article on FAIR's website Tyre Nichols Was One of Too Many Kat Sewon Oh   Family photo of Tyre Nichols published in the Amsterdam News (2/14/23). Every news outlet was talking about it. On January 7, 29-year-old Tyre Nichols was brutally beaten by Memphis police …

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February 25, 2023 at 1:43 AM

WaPo vs. Retirees... (Too) Early Polling... Egg Prices

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February 25, 2023 at 12:35 AM

The Washington Post Is Coming for Your Retirement Benefits

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Washington Post Is Coming for Your Retirement Benefits Conor Smyth   The Washington Post (2/5/23) warns that in 2034, when Social Security exhausts its reserves, "seniors face an immediate 25 percent cut in benefits." Its solution to …

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February 24, 2023 at 10:18 PM

Early Polling Tells You Little About Next Year's GOP Primary

All posts View article on FAIR's website Early Polling Tells You Little About Next Year's GOP Primary David W. Moore   The Hill (2/17/23) turns a 3-point change in the margin between Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump—11 months before the first Republican nomina…

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February 24, 2023 at 4:53 PM

Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230224.mp3   Tucker Carlson on Fox News (7/6/21) This week on CounterSpin: If you care …

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February 21, 2023 at 10:55 PM

Distortion of Breakfast Price Hikes Leaves WSJ With Egg on Face

All posts View article on FAIR's website Distortion of Breakfast Price Hikes Leaves WSJ With Egg on Face Luca GoldMansour   Note to those considering the Wall Street Journal's advice (2/14/23): For the price of a Journal subscription, you could buy 1,170 eggs a year. The Wall S…

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February 21, 2023 at 9:25 PM

'Punitive Enforcement Does Not Save Lives, or Reduce Drug Supply'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Punitive Enforcement Does Not Save Lives, or Reduce Drug Supply' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Drug Policy Alliance's Maritza Perez Medina about fentanyl for the February 17, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly e…

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February 18, 2023 at 12:30 AM

NYT Transphobia... Bernie Sanders... Branding DeSantis

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February 17, 2023 at 11:50 PM

NYT Trans Letter a Fight for Media Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Trans Letter a Fight for Media Democracy  Ari Paul   The New York Times Magazine (print, 6/19/22) referred to a trans teenager whose treatment for gender dysmorphia helped establish protocols as "Patient Zero"—the same term used in an…

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February 17, 2023 at 7:58 PM

You'd Scowl, Too, if Media Covered You Like Bernie Sanders

All posts View article on FAIR's website You'd Scowl, Too, if Media Covered You Like Bernie Sanders Julie Hollar   The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg (2/12/23) describes Sen. Bernie Sanders as "wearing his trademark scowl" when she uses his becoming chair of the Senate heal…

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February 17, 2023 at 5:09 PM

Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security

All posts View article on FAIR's website Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230217.mp3   (image: Drug Enforcement Agency) This week on Cou…

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February 16, 2023 at 8:43 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II Jim Naureckas   A New York Times book review (2/14/23) gets an important fact about US history seriously wrong. In a red-baiting New York Times review (2/14/…

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February 14, 2023 at 10:33 PM

As Right Media Hail DeSantis as 'Woke' Killer, Centrists Admire His Brand

All posts View article on FAIR's website As Right Media Hail DeSantis as 'Woke' Killer, Centrists Admire His Brand Ari Paul   The College Board has “purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism” …

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February 13, 2023 at 10:42 PM

'Gigi Sohn Has Faced Relentless Smear Campaigns, Some Funded by the Telecom Industry'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Gigi Sohn Has Faced Relentless Smear Campaigns, Some Funded by the Telecom Industry' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Fight for the Future's Evan Greer, on the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC, for the February 10, 2023, epis…

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February 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

China Balloon... Birthrate Obsession... Weight-Loss Drug

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February 10, 2023 at 11:39 PM

Media 'Spy Balloon' Obsession a Gift to China Hawks

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media 'Spy Balloon' Obsession a Gift to China Hawks Julianne Tveten   For over a week, US corporate media have been captivated by a so-called “Chinese spy balloon,” raising the specter of espionage. NBC News (2/2/23), the Washington Post (…

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February 10, 2023 at 10:57 PM

60 Minutes' Weight-Loss Tip: Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You

All posts View article on FAIR's website 60 Minutes' Weight-Loss Tip: Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You Julie Hollar   People in the United States have grown accustomed to endless pharmaceutical ads when watching TV. The industry is the fourth-biggest spender on TV advertising i…

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February 10, 2023 at 7:14 PM

'Everyone Has a Right to Electricity and Heat'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Everyone Has a Right to Electricity and Heat' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Energy and Policy Institute's Shelby Green and the Center for Biological Diversity's Selah Goodson Bell about utility shutoffs and profiteering …

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February 10, 2023 at 4:42 PM

Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC

All posts View article on FAIR's website Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230210.mp3   (image: Fight for the Future) This week on CounterSpin: Why does it matter to…

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February 7, 2023 at 3:44 PM

Douthat's Birthrate Obsession Launders White Nationalist Anxieties

All posts View article on FAIR's website Douthat's Birthrate Obsession Launders White Nationalist Anxieties Julie Hollar   Ross Douthat confesses to having an obsession with the so-called "baby bust." The New York Times columnist has brought up the supposed perils of low birthrat…

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February 3, 2023 at 11:15 PM

Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War

All posts View article on FAIR's website Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War Bryce Greene   Good news! Neo-Nazis are no longer dangerous, says Facebook (Kyiv Independent, 1/19/23). Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company n…

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February 3, 2023 at 9:17 PM

Oil Lobby Prompts Right-Wing Media to Save Whales—From Wind Power

All posts View article on FAIR's website Oil Lobby Prompts Right-Wing Media to Save Whales—From Wind Power Olivia Riggio   Republicans and right-wing commentators suddenly want to save the whales—and much of the news media is buying it. As a humpback whale was found on the shore …

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February 3, 2023 at 4:41 PM

Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering

All posts View article on FAIR's website Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230203.mp3   Bailout Watch et al. (1/30/23) This we…

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February 2, 2023 at 10:19 PM

You Don't Stop Police Killings by Calling them 'Fatal Encounters'

All posts View article on FAIR's website You Don't Stop Police Killings by Calling them 'Fatal Encounters' Julie Hollar   It’s hard to find words after yet another brutal police killing of a Black person, this time of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, captured in ho…

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February 1, 2023 at 3:48 PM

Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media Luca GoldMansour   “Liking” a post on social media might not seem like a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups actually depend a great deal on their readers' online en…

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January 31, 2023 at 10:08 PM

Goldilocks Wants to Eat the Poor

All posts View article on FAIR's website Goldilocks Wants to Eat the Poor Conor Smyth   The 19th century English fable Goldilocks tells the story of a young girl who breaks into the home of three bears and eats their porridge. Luckily, they have three different bowls ready for co…

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January 30, 2023 at 10:05 PM

'We Can Pay for What We Decide to Pay For'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Can Pay for What We Decide to Pay For' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Mother Jones' Michael Mechanic about defunding the IRS for the January 27, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://me…

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January 27, 2023 at 9:32 PM

To US Papers, Iranian Weapons Far More Newsworthy Than Those Made in USA

All posts View article on FAIR's website To US Papers, Iranian Weapons Far More Newsworthy Than Those Made in USA Gregory Shupak   One official enemy's arms sales to another official enemy are frequently highlighted in headlines (New York Times, 9/25/22). Russia’s use of Irania…

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