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April 14, 2023 at 2:04 PM

Taxes: Who Pays and What For?

All posts View article on FAIR's website Taxes: Who Pays and What For? CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS Fat cat pays a pittance in taxes to Uncle Sam in vintage cartoon. This week on CounterSpin: It is tax season in the US,  when some of us wonder why the government, which knows how…

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April 13, 2023 at 8:58 PM

UPS Workers Might Revitalize Labor—if Corporate Media Skip the Script

All posts View article on FAIR's website UPS Workers Might Revitalize Labor—if Corporate Media Skip the Script Teddy Ostrow Over 340,000 workers at United Parcel Service (UPS) could launch the largest strike against a single company in US history this August, when their collectiv…

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April 13, 2023 at 6:51 PM

Starbucks 'Workers and Consumers Have the Same Foe'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Starbucks 'Workers and Consumers Have the Same Foe' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed journalist Saurav Sarkar about Starbucks organizing for the April 7, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https:/…

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April 12, 2023 at 10:04 PM

NYT Blames American Public for Collapse of Pandemic Safety Net

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Blames American Public for Collapse of Pandemic Safety Net Conor Smyth   Thanks in large part to pandemic social spending, employment recovered from the 2020 recession in record time (Chart: Apricitas Economics, 4/8/23). A ban on evi…

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April 11, 2023 at 9:07 PM

US Media Denounce Twitter’s ‘State Media’ Label—When It Affects NPR

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Denounce Twitter’s ‘State Media’ Label—When It Affects NPR Julianne Tveten   The Washington Post (4/5/23) questioned "the unsavory suggestion that [NPR's] reporting is tainted." As part of an ongoing, impulsive and reactionary v…

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April 11, 2023 at 5:40 PM

Support Our Shared Values

Support Our Shared Values View this email in your browser   Support Our Shared Values 🌱   Dear FAIR Friends,  We’re in the second week of our spring fundraiser. We’re off to a nice start, but we s…

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April 10, 2023 at 6:35 PM

'The US Incarcerates More Immigrants Than Anywhere Else in the World'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The US Incarcerates More Immigrants Than Anywhere Else in the World' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Detention Watch Network's Silky Shah about the fire at the Ciudad Juárez detention center for the March 31, 2023, episode of …

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April 8, 2023 at 1:01 AM

Antarctic Crisis... Medicaid Cuts... Starbucks Organizing

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April 7, 2023 at 11:20 PM

Trump’s Idling Plane Got More TV Coverage Than Biden Cutting Healthcare for 15 Million

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump’s Idling Plane Got More TV Coverage Than Biden Cutting Healthcare for 15 Million Bryce Greene   The Column (4/3/23): "Because the gutting of pandemic-era welfare programs is bipartisan in nature—and President Biden is making no case…

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April 7, 2023 at 11:02 PM

Media's Lab Leak Theorists See Spies, Not Scientists, as Arbiters of Science

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media's Lab Leak Theorists See Spies, Not Scientists, as Arbiters of Science Ari Paul   Readers should have very low confidence in the Wall Street Journal's assumption (2/26/23) that classified intelligence reports are helpful gauges of s…

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April 7, 2023 at 3:46 PM

Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing

All posts View article on FAIR's website Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230407.mp3   (CC photo: Elliot Stoller) This week on CounterSpin: Former President Donald …

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April 6, 2023 at 4:20 PM

US Media Cheer as France Forces Old People to Work

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Cheer as France Forces Old People to Work Conor Smyth   The Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) reports with evident alarm that "France has one of the lowest rates of retirees at risk of poverty in Europe." “The Party Is Ending for Fr…

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April 5, 2023 at 7:11 PM

'Medicare Advantage Has Never Delivered on the Promise'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Medicare Advantage Has Never Delivered on the Promise' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Eagan Kemp about Medicare Advantage for the March 31, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. h…

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April 4, 2023 at 8:56 PM

Projected Collapse of Crucial Antarctic Current Met With Media Silence

All posts View article on FAIR's website Projected Collapse of Crucial Antarctic Current Met With Media Silence Julie Hollar   On the heels of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (3/20/23), which featured scientists running out of ways to emphasize …

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April 3, 2023 at 5:12 PM

There's joy is standing up for the truth! 🌱

There's joy is standing up for the truth! 🌱 View this email in your browser   There’s Joy in Standing Up for the Truth! 🌱   Dear FAIR Community,  From workers’ rights to misleading inflation cover…

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March 31, 2023 at 10:00 PM

Detention Center Fire... Antiwar Protests... Nashville Shooting

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March 31, 2023 at 1:36 PM

Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin230331.mp3   Ciudad Juárez detention center fire This week…

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March 30, 2023 at 10:17 PM

Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media Dave Lindorff   In the early morning of March 20, 2003, US Navy bombers on aircraft carriers and Tomahawk missile-launching vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, along with Air Force B…

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March 30, 2023 at 7:16 PM

Murdoch Uses Nashville to Stoke Anti-Trans Hate

All posts View article on FAIR's website Murdoch Uses Nashville to Stoke Anti-Trans Hate Ari Paul Aiden Hale used three of the seven guns he bought in an assault on a Christian school in Nashville, killing six people, including three children. Hale, a former student at the school…

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March 29, 2023 at 8:31 PM

'Media and Government Excuses Are Basically Intertwined'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Media and Government Excuses Are Basically Intertwined' Jim Naureckas   Janine Jackson interviewed the Roots Action's Norman Solomon about the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion for the March 24, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a…

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March 28, 2023 at 10:07 PM

'Objectivity' Obliterates Empathy and Curiosity

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Objectivity' Obliterates Empathy and Curiosity Robin Epstein   FAIR’s commentary by Conor Smyth (2/28/23) on former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr.’s anti-objectivity manifesto (Washington Post, 1/30/23), and New York Times colu…

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March 27, 2023 at 9:10 PM

Cop City Coverage Fails to Question Narratives of Militarized Police

All posts View article on FAIR's website Cop City Coverage Fails to Question Narratives of Militarized Police Olivia Riggio Protests against the construction of an 85-acre police training facility—dubbed “Cop City”—in a suburban Atlanta forest turned deadly when police shot and …

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March 24, 2023 at 11:00 PM

Iraq Invasion After 20 Years... Cop City Protest... Election Projections

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March 24, 2023 at 10:14 PM

What Fox's Bad Calls on Election Night 2020 Say About 2024

All posts View article on FAIR's website What Fox's Bad Calls on Election Night 2020 Say About 2024 David W. Moore   The problems Fox News had on Election Night 2020 don't bode well for the election of 2024. iMediaEthics (5/19/21): In Arizona, "the actual results were much close…

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March 24, 2023 at 7:20 PM

'People Have Been Protesting Against Cop City Since We Found Out About It'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'People Have Been Protesting Against Cop City Since We Found Out About It' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Community Movement Builders' Kamau Franklin about the fight against Cop City for the March 17, 2023, episode of CounterS…

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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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