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December 8, 2023 at 7:47 PM

'The Reality of What It Is to Have an Abortion Has to Be Brought Into Every Story'

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December 8, 2023 at 4:39 PM

Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace

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December 7, 2023 at 11:27 PM

Corporate Media Reluctant to Report on UAW Victory From Workers' Perspective

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December 4, 2023 at 7:38 PM

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December 1, 2023 at 11:20 PM

Gaza Hospital... Marriage & Ideology... Abortion Access

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December 1, 2023 at 9:44 PM

Press Relayed Israeli Claims of Secret Hospital Base With Insufficient Skepticism

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December 1, 2023 at 5:06 PM

Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics

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November 30, 2023 at 10:15 PM

WaPo Tells Women: If You Want Marriage, Compromise With Misogyny

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November 28, 2023 at 9:14 PM

Milei Is 'Really as Extreme as You Get in Right-Wing Libertarian Ideas'

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November 27, 2023 at 7:01 PM

Will you join us in reimagining a brighter media future?

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November 27, 2023 at 5:19 PM

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November 24, 2023 at 10:42 PM

Who Speaks About Gaza?... Musk Lawsuit... Holocaust Revisionism

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November 24, 2023 at 8:49 PM

Media Holocaust Revisionism After Canada's Standing Ovation for an SS Vet

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November 24, 2023 at 3:49 PM

Mark Weisbrot on Argentina's Javier Milei

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November 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM

Musk’s Lawsuit Is About Destroying Free Speech

All posts View article on FAIR's website Musk’s Lawsuit Is About Destroying Free Speech Ari Paul   Media Matters for America (11/16/23): "We recently found ads for Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity and IBM next to posts that tout Hitler and his Nazi Party on X." He wasn’t …

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November 21, 2023 at 11:08 PM

The Dystopian AI Future Some Fear Is the Present-Day Reality Others Live

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November 21, 2023 at 5:41 PM

Sunday's Gaza Guests Linked to Military Industry, Pro-Israel Funding

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sunday's Gaza Guests Linked to Military Industry, Pro-Israel Funding Julie Hollar   As the Israel/Gaza crisis continues unabated, eliciting massive protests around the world, US media offer a strikingly narrow debate. On the Sunday…

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November 17, 2023 at 11:03 PM

Gaza Study... Censoring TikTok... Mental Illness & Violence

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November 17, 2023 at 9:47 PM

'You Cannot Preach on Human Rights When You Are Not Doing Enough at Home'

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November 17, 2023 at 7:25 PM

For Cable News, a Palestinian Life Is Not the Same as an Israeli Life

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November 17, 2023 at 3:39 PM

Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi

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November 16, 2023 at 10:49 PM

'A True Believer in Heinous Ideas'

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November 16, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Smearing Photojournalists as Hamas Collaborators Gets Them Added to a Hit List

All posts View article on FAIR's website Smearing Photojournalists as Hamas Collaborators Gets Them Added to a Hit List Ari Paul   HonestReporting (11/8/23) presented photojournalists taking photos of combat—something photographers have been doing since there was photog…

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November 15, 2023 at 10:30 PM

Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Doesn’t Address Either Issue

All posts View article on FAIR's website Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Doesn’t Address Either Issue Olivia Riggio   A photo of Robert Card released by police. Since a gunman went on a rampage in Lewistown, Maine, killing 16 people, we’ve learned a few things…

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November 15, 2023 at 4:39 PM

NYT Runs Interference for IDF as It Bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Runs Interference for IDF as It Bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp Robin Andersen   A New York Times headline (10/31/23) erases both the perpetrators and the victims of an Israeli air attack that killed hundreds of Palestinians. Isr…

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November 13, 2023 at 10:24 PM

'Free Speech' Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Free Speech' Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad Ari Paul   "A free press for free people" boldly champions the censorship of dangerous foreign ideas (Free Press, 11/1/23). Axios (10/31/23) re…

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November 10, 2023 at 11:01 PM

False Dichotomy...US Human Rights...Movement Media

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November 10, 2023 at 2:43 PM

Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson

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November 7, 2023 at 9:02 PM

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November 6, 2023 at 8:14 PM

Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading

All posts View article on FAIR's website Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading Ari Paul   This Pew report (5/21/21) should not come as a surprise to US journalists. As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and ground invasio…

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November 6, 2023 at 5:06 PM

'Movement Media Has Really Emerged in Its Own Right'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Movement Media Has Really Emerged in Its Own Right' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Truthout's Maya Schenwar about grassroots journalism for the October 27, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcri…

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November 3, 2023 at 9:57 PM

Gaza Hospital Blast...Biden & Saudi Arabia...Paxlovid Price-Gouging

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November 3, 2023 at 8:53 PM

'Drug Corporations Have Really Been in the Driver's Seat'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Drug Corporations Have Really Been in the Driver's Seat' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Peter Maybarduk about Paxlovid price-gouging for the October 27, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a light…

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November 3, 2023 at 8:21 PM

Media's In-House Critics to Reporters: Quit Quoting Palestinians About Civilian Deaths

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media's In-House Critics to Reporters: Quit Quoting Palestinians About Civilian Deaths Jim Naureckas   Articles like the Atlantic's (10/23/23) that took media to task for supposedly credulous reporting of the Gaza hospital blast …

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November 3, 2023 at 3:56 PM

Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre

All posts View article on FAIR's website Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS   https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231103.mp3   New York Times (6/5/22) This week …

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October 27, 2023 at 11:02 PM

Ceasefire Study... Assange... Paxlovid Price-Gouging

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October 27, 2023 at 3:31 PM

Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism

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October 25, 2023 at 9:31 PM

'Poverty in America Has Strong Structural Roots That Some People Profit From'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Poverty in America Has Strong Structural Roots That Some People Profit From' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Northeastern University's Christopher Bosso about food assistance programs for the October 20, 2023, episode of…

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October 25, 2023 at 7:42 PM

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October 25, 2023 at 4:18 PM

Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange

All posts View article on FAIR's website Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Robin Andersen   Sydney Morning Herald (5/12/23): "The time has come to end this sorry saga." As WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange has n…

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October 24, 2023 at 9:07 PM

In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You'll Seldom Hear: 'Ceasefire'

All posts View article on FAIR's website In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You'll Seldom Hear: 'Ceasefire' Julie Hollar   Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, and the subsequent, ongoing Israeli airstrikes, US TV news has offered extensive coverage of Israel a…

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October 20, 2023 at 10:00 PM

Gaza Crisis...Food Assistance...Attacks on Journalists

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October 20, 2023 at 6:18 PM

Unconfirmed 'Beheaded Babies' Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter

All posts View article on FAIR's website Unconfirmed 'Beheaded Babies' Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter Saurav Sarkar   Nicole Zedek (i24, 10/10/23) reports from the scene of the alleged mass decapitation. There’s perhaps no more serious a time for journalists t…

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October 20, 2023 at 2:16 PM

Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters

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October 19, 2023 at 3:39 PM

Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors

All posts View article on FAIR's website Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors Ari Paul CPJ (10/18/23) tallied 17 journalists killed in the first 11 days of the Gaza crisis—the same number as have been killed in Ukraine in the 20 months since t…

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October 18, 2023 at 7:53 PM

The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times Jim Naureckas   The phrase "a decent left" comes from Dissent editor Michael Walzer's piece "Can There Be a Decent Left?" (Spring/02), which chided progressives for no…

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October 17, 2023 at 9:26 PM

In Gaza, 'We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context'

All posts View article on FAIR's website In Gaza, 'We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis about Gaza for the October 13, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a ligh…

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October 17, 2023 at 6:33 PM

Help us set the record straight!

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October 13, 2023 at 7:32 PM

Papers That Ignore Causes of Violence Can't Help Prevent It

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October 13, 2023 at 3:27 PM

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza

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