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January 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM

Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping

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January 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM

'Protest Is the Tool by Which We Realize Our Democracy'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Protest Is the Tool by Which We Realize Our Democracy' Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent's Chip Gibbons about the right to protest for the January 5, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a l…

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January 9, 2024 at 9:09 PM

NYT Invents a Bipartisan Anti-Immigrant Consensus

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January 5, 2024 at 11:33 PM

Overcoming Inflation... Carbon Capture... Right to Protest

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January 5, 2024 at 8:36 PM

Media Obsession With Inflation Has Manufactured Discontent

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Obsession With Inflation Has Manufactured Discontent Conor Smyth   2023 is over, and with it, the great inflation surge of the last few years has essentially come to an end. As the progressive economist Dean Baker trumpeted s…

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January 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM

Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest

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January 4, 2024 at 8:20 PM

Corporate Media Fed COP 28 Carbon Capture Confusion

All posts View article on FAIR's website  Corporate Media Fed COP 28 Carbon Capture Confusion Olivia Riggio   The COP 28 UN climate conference concluded with countries agreeing to a plan to transition away from fossil fuels, using language that fell short of calling for a…

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January 3, 2024 at 5:29 PM

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

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context' Janine Jackson   This is a lightly edited transcript of "The Best of CounterSpin 2023," originally aired on December 29, 2023. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrr…

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December 31, 2023 at 2:30 PM

New Year, Same Dedication to the Truth!

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December 29, 2023 at 10:34 PM

Republican Debate Questions... Best of CounterSpin... New McCarthyism Transcript

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December 29, 2023 at 10:19 PM

'"Material Support" in the Form of Speech Could Be Criminalized'

All posts View article on FAIR's website '"Material Support" in the Form of Speech Could Be Criminalized' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the University of Colorado's Wadie Said about the new Gaza McCarthyism for the December 22, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. …

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December 29, 2023 at 5:15 PM

It's Crunch Time!

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December 29, 2023 at 4:30 PM

Best of CounterSpin 2023

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December 27, 2023 at 5:30 PM

Support a More Just & Robust Media!

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December 26, 2023 at 5:05 PM

Debate Questions Posed to GOP Hopefuls Rarely Questioned Right-Wing Orthodoxy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Debate Questions Posed to GOP Hopefuls Rarely Questioned Right-Wing Orthodoxy Keating Zelenke The latter half of this year brought us the first GOP debates of the 2024 election cycle. From August to December, the Republican candida…

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December 22, 2023 at 10:43 PM

Brazil's Long Coup...Baltimore Banner...The New McCarthyism

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December 22, 2023 at 4:24 PM

Two Weeks to Go!

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December 22, 2023 at 3:24 PM

Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism

All posts View article on FAIR's website Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231222.mp3   Middle East Eye (12/14/23) This week on CounterSpin: People in the US,…

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December 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Baltimore’s New Nonprofit Outlet Looks a Lot Like the Same Old Corporate News

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December 21, 2023 at 8:42 PM

'The Only Way to Have Meaningful Climate Policy Is to Beat the Oil Guys'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Only Way to Have Meaningful Climate Policy Is to Beat the Oil Guys' Janine Jackson   The December 15, 2023, episode of CounterSpin was an archival show, featuring Janine Jackson's December 16, 2022, interview with Richard Wile…

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December 20, 2023 at 11:55 PM

US Media Suppressed Their Government's Role in Ousting Brazil's Government

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Suppressed Their Government's Role in Ousting Brazil's Government Brian Mier   In a new peer-reviewed academic article in Latin American Perspectives (11/19/23), "Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the…

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December 19, 2023 at 5:05 PM

Fight for a Fearless Fourth Estate

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December 15, 2023 at 11:52 PM

Anti-Zionism... Masha Gessen... Climate Filters

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December 15, 2023 at 10:46 PM

Gessen’s Cancellation Can’t Go Unchallenged

All posts View article on FAIR's website Gessen’s Cancellation Can’t Go Unchallenged Ari Paul Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has built an impressive career in US journalism by being a constant thorn in the side of the Russian state. That journalistic campaign en…

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December 15, 2023 at 9:27 PM

ACTION ALERT: NYT Misrepresents Zionism's Opponents as Anti-Jewish Bigots

All posts View article on FAIR's website ACTION ALERT: NYT Misrepresents Zionism's Opponents as Anti-Jewish Bigots Jim Naureckas   "Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic?" a New York Times article (12/10/23) by Jonathan Weisman asked. Trying to pinpoint the moment when "anti…

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December 15, 2023 at 5:01 PM

Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media

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December 14, 2023 at 5:06 PM

'"None of Us Are Free Unless All of Us Are Free" Is Not Just a Slogan'

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December 13, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Causing Gaza Blackouts, Israel Benefits from Media Double Standards

All posts View article on FAIR's website Causing Gaza Blackouts, Israel Benefits from Media Double Standards Julianne Tveten   As part of its escalating siege and bombing campaign against Palestinians—in which more than 18,000 people have been killed and roughly 1.9 milli…

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December 12, 2023 at 10:38 PM

NYT Amplifies Outrage Over Imaginary Calls for Genocide

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Amplifies Outrage Over Imaginary Calls for Genocide Ari Paul   University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses. …

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December 11, 2023 at 4:51 PM

Keep FAIR thriving through 2024!

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December 9, 2023 at 12:57 AM

'Israel-Hamas' Label... Jewish Voice for Peace... UAW Contract

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December 9, 2023 at 12:56 AM

'Israel-Hamas War' Label Obscures Israel's War on Palestinians

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Israel-Hamas War' Label Obscures Israel's War on Palestinians Gregory Shupak   Since October 7, the day the escalation in Israel/Palestine began (FAIR.org, 10/13/23), American media outlets have persistently described the fighting…

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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'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Reality of What It Is to Have an Abortion Has to Be Brought Into Every Story' Janine Jackson CounterSpin interview with Melissa Gira Grant on abortion access Janine Jackson interviewed the New Republic's Melissa Gira Grant abo…

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December 8, 2023 at 4:39 PM

Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231208.mp3   (CC image: Jewish Voice for Peace) This week on CounterSpin:…

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December 7, 2023 at 11:27 PM

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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Corporate Media Reluctant to Report on UAW Victory From Workers' Perspective Paige Oamek   After a historic six weeks on strike, United Auto Workers members ratified new contracts with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (which own…

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December 4, 2023 at 7:38 PM

YOU can be a media activist!

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Press Relayed Israeli Claims of Secret Hospital Base With Insufficient Skepticism Ari Paul A cover image of the New York Post (11/16/23) depicted a supposedly shocking find. The headline “Guns Behind the MRI Machine” accompanied a …

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December 1, 2023 at 5:06 PM

Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics

All posts View article on FAIR's website Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231201.mp3   AP (11/19/23) This week on CounterSpin: “Abortion P…

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November 30, 2023 at 10:15 PM

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

All posts View article on FAIR's website WaPo Tells Women: If You Want Marriage, Compromise With Misogyny  Julie Hollar   The Washington Post (11/22/23) insists that young people's political "mismatch means that someone will need to compromise"—and it's not hard to figu…

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November 28, 2023 at 9:14 PM

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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Milei Is 'Really as Extreme as You Get in Right-Wing Libertarian Ideas' Janine Jackson CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR's Mark Weisbrot about Argentine President-elect Javier …

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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

'Worship of the Holy Framers Offers Us Nothing to Deal With the Problems We Have Today'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Worship of the Holy Framers Offers Us Nothing to Deal With the Problems We Have Today' Janine Jackson   CounterSpin interview with Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi Janine Jackson interviewed Temple Law School's Scott Burris about Unit…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Holocaust Revisionism After Canada's Standing Ovation for an SS Vet Gregory Shupak   Canadian House Speaker Anthony Rota (Politico, 9/24/23) said of the SS veteran, "He’s a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him …

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November 24, 2023 at 3:49 PM

Mark Weisbrot on Argentina's Javier Milei

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mark Weisbrot on Argentina's Javier Milei CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231124.mp3   Washington Post (11/19/23) This week on CounterSpin: The new p…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Dystopian AI Future Some Fear Is the Present-Day Reality Others Live Beatrice Dias   The New York Times (5/30/23) directs attention toward a hypothetical future AI apocalypse, rather than towards present-day AI's entrenchment…

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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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