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February 1, 2024 at 5:31 PM

Leading Papers Skewed Gaza Debate Toward Israeli and Government Perspectives

All posts View article on FAIR's website Leading Papers Skewed Gaza Debate Toward Israeli and Government Perspectives Julie Hollar   At the New York Times and Washington Post, despite efforts to include Palestinian voices, opinion editors have skewed the Gaza debate towar…

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January 31, 2024 at 11:31 PM

'We Know What Keeps Us Safe: People Need Care and Not Punishment'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Know What Keeps Us Safe: People Need Care and Not Punishment' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Movement for Black Lives' Monifa Bandele about reimagining public safety for the January 26, 2024, episode of Counter…

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January 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM

'If You Can't Choose Your Own Leaders, Nothing Else Matters'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'If You Can't Choose Your Own Leaders, Nothing Else Matters' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed People For the American Way's  Svante Myrick about roadblocks to voting for the January 26, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This…

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January 29, 2024 at 10:40 PM

The Real Border Crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution

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January 26, 2024 at 11:08 PM

Peace March Erasure... After New Hampshire... Reading Healthcare News....

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January 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM

For NYT's Baker, 2024 Is About 'Disparate Visions'—Not Threat to Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website For NYT's Baker, 2024 Is About 'Disparate Visions'—Not Threat to Democracy Julie Hollar     The New York Times' post–New Hampshire analysis of the presidential election by the paper's senior White House correspondent, Peter Baker, …

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January 26, 2024 at 4:53 PM

Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting

All posts View article on FAIR's website Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240126.mp3   Guardian (1/8/24) Thi…

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January 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM

NYT Engages in Front-Page IDF 'Womenwashing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Engages in Front-Page IDF 'Womenwashing' Ari Paul   When stories like these appear in the media of an official enemy (Global Times, 7/15/19), they're easy to recognize as propaganda. If you read the Global Times, an English-…

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January 25, 2024 at 7:20 PM

March Against Genocide Isn’t News to New York Times

All posts View article on FAIR's website March Against Genocide Isn’t News to New York Times Dave Lindorff   Devoted New York Times readers are likely unaware that a huge protest was held in the nation’s capital on Saturday, January 13, to protest Israel’s wanton slaughte…

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January 24, 2024 at 11:33 PM

Skip the Last Two Paragraphs—and Other Time-Saving Tips for Healthcare News Consumers

All posts View article on FAIR's website Skip the Last Two Paragraphs—and Other Time-Saving Tips for Healthcare News Consumers John Canham-Clyne   A year ago, I returned to journalism after 26 years working in the labor movement. The most surprising aspect of the job chan…

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January 23, 2024 at 11:03 PM

'When You're in a Colonial Situation, the Colonial Power Initiates Violence'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'When You're in a Colonial Situation, the Colonial Power Initiates Violence' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed University of Guelph-Humber's Gregory Shupak about Gaza and genocide for the January 19, 2024, episode of Coun…

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January 19, 2024 at 11:30 PM

Fast Food & Minimum Wage... Private Equity & Healthcare... Gaza & Genocide....

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January 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM

Reporting on California's Fast-Food Minimum Wage Raise Comes With Side Order of Fear

All posts View article on FAIR's website Reporting on California's Fast-Food Minimum Wage Raise Comes With Side Order of Fear Conor Smyth   What’s scarier than a shark attack? An increase in the minimum wage. At least that’s what many corporate media outlets seem to want …

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January 19, 2024 at 4:23 PM

Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide

All posts View article on FAIR's website Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240119.mp3   New York Times (10/14/23) This week on CounterSpin: US corporate new…

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January 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM

'A Minimum-Wage Increase Can Benefit the Whole Economy'

All posts View article on FAIR's website  'A Minimum-Wage Increase Can Benefit the Whole Economy' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed EPI's Sebastian Martinez Hickey about the minimum wage for the January 12, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edite…

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January 16, 2024 at 8:44 PM

Private Equity 'Takeover' Is Not Driving Healthcare Crisis

All posts View article on FAIR's website Private Equity 'Takeover' Is Not Driving Healthcare Crisis John Canham-Clyne   If you get healthcare news from major media outlets, the industry press or even medical journals, you might conclude that private equity investors are “…

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January 12, 2024 at 11:08 PM

Normalizing Xenophobia... Springer Investigation... Minimum Wage

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January 12, 2024 at 10:31 PM

At Springer, Accurate Reporting Can Get You Investigated

All posts View article on FAIR's website At Springer, Accurate Reporting Can Get You Investigated Ari Paul   The spectacle of the German media giant Axel Springer investigating one of its US media outlets for reporting truthful information about a wealthy and influential …

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January 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM

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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping Janine Jackson   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240112.mp3   Yahoo (1/4/24) This w…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Invents a Bipartisan Anti-Immigrant Consensus Ari Paul   According to the New York Times (1/4/24), the immigration situation has put President Joe Biden at odds with local Democratic leaders who want a tougher border policy. Bu…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240105.mp3   (image: Jewish Voice for Peace) This week on CounterSpin: It was a bi…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Baltimore’s New Nonprofit Outlet Looks a Lot Like the Same Old Corporate News Justine Barron   The Baltimore Banner, an online news outlet, broke a story in November (11/2/23) about a man’s death being ruled a homicide due to “trau…

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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

All posts View article on FAIR's website Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media CounterSpin Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin231215.mp3   New York…

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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'

All posts View article on FAIR's website '"None of Us Are Free Unless All of Us Are Free" Is Not Just a Slogan' Janine Jackson   CounterSpin interview with Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace Janine Jackson interviewed Jewish Voice for Peace's Sonya Meyerson-Kno…

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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!

Keep FAIR thriving through 2024! View this email in your browser   Keep FAIR thriving through 2024! Dear FAIR Friend,  As right-wing politicians and anti-abortion activists work to undermine reprod…

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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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