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September 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240906.mp3   CEPR (8/26/24) This week on CounterS…

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September 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM

'They See These Price Hikes as a Good Thing'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They See These Price Hikes as a Good Thing' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed journalist Freddy Brewster about the supermarket megamerger for the August 30, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcri…

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September 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM

A Bookstore Brouhaha Confuses Whose Speech Is Being Curtailed

All posts View article on FAIR's website A Bookstore Brouhaha Confuses Whose Speech Is Being Curtailed Ari Paul   The New York Times (8/21/24), knowing that "outrage" sells, saves for the last paragraph the information that a supposedly canceled author turned down an of…

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September 3, 2024 at 2:34 PM

Fight for a Just and Robust Fourth Estate

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August 30, 2024 at 9:33 PM

Breaking News Study... French Crisis... Supermarket Megamerger....

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August 30, 2024 at 8:01 PM

US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren't Allowed to Take Power

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren't Allowed to Take Power Paul Hedreen   One of the US's oldest and closest allies is currently undergoing a constitutional crisis. Its government is in disarray, led by a he…

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August 30, 2024 at 3:21 PM

Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger

All posts View article on FAIR's website Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240830.mp3   Lever (8/26/24) This week on CounterSpin: The country’s large…

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August 28, 2024 at 4:40 PM

'They're Trying to Pass Laws to Make Dark Money Even Darker'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'They're Trying to Pass Laws to Make Dark Money Even Darker' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed North Central College's Steve Macek about "dark money" campaign contributions  for the August 23, 2024, episode of CounterSpin…

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August 27, 2024 at 9:07 PM

Breaking News Alerts Keep Public Posted on Trivia and Trump

All posts View article on FAIR's website Breaking News Alerts Keep Public Posted on Trivia and Trump Xenia Gonikberg   Much like the front page, breaking-news newsletters demonstrate which stories news outlets think deserve the most attention. It's important real estate: …

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August 26, 2024 at 10:20 PM

NYT Uncritically Reported Israel's Version of Golan Bombing

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Uncritically Reported Israel's Version of Golan Bombing Bryce Greene As the US-backed genocide in Gaza continues, US media assist in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to widen the war, parroting the words of the …

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August 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM

RIP Phil Donahue... Sanders at DNC... Dark Money....

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August 23, 2024 at 10:11 PM

'This Was Not Caused by God, But Caused by Climate Change'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Was Not Caused by God, But Caused by Climate Change' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Inside Climate News' Victoria St. Martin about suing Big Oil for the August 16, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly …

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August 23, 2024 at 9:03 PM

NYT Can't Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Can't Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq Jon Schwarz   The New York Times (8/19/24) insinuated that Phil Donahue attributed to politics a cancellation that was really cause by low ratings. If I were teaching a class cal…

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August 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM

Steve Macek on Dark Money

All posts View article on FAIR's website Steve Macek on Dark Money CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240823.mp3   This week on CounterSpin: One of many things wrong with corporate news media is …

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August 22, 2024 at 9:43 PM

Sanders' Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies

All posts View article on FAIR's website Sanders' Convention Speech Attacked by NYT for Advocating Popular Policies Elsie Carson-Holt         New York Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy (8/20/24) described Sen. Bernie Sanders' speech to the Democratic National Conv…

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August 21, 2024 at 9:30 PM

'This Is a Push to Pass Laws Criminalizing Protest of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Is a Push to Pass Laws Criminalizing Protest of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed ExxonKnews' Emily Sanders about criminalizing pipeline protests for the August 16, 2024, episode of Count…

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August 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM

Phil Donahue Changed My Life—and Millions of Others

All posts View article on FAIR's website Phil Donahue Changed My Life—and Millions of Others Jeff Cohen   Phil Donahue passed away Sunday night, after a long illness. He was beloved by those who knew him and by many who didn’t. He started as a local reporter in Ohio, was …

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August 16, 2024 at 10:32 PM

Gaza Protest Study... Walz & BLM... Suing Big Oil....

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August 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM

Students Left Out of Discussions About Student Gaza Protests 

All posts View article on FAIR's website Students Left Out of Discussions About Student Gaza Protests  Felipe Rendall   Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation. But, according to a new FAIR study examinin…

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August 14, 2024 at 10:14 PM

Press Amplifies GOP Attack Line: Walz Too Slow to Use Force Against BLM

All posts View article on FAIR's website Press Amplifies GOP Attack Line: Walz Too Slow to Use Force Against BLM Ari Paul   As the Democrats headed toward their convention with momentum for the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket, newspapers have collectively found an Augus…

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August 14, 2024 at 8:30 PM

'Trying to Pull the Strings on a Prosecutor's Judgment Is a Serious Problem'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Trying to Pull the Strings on a Prosecutor's Judgment Is a Serious Problem' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Constitutional Rights' Shayana Kadidal about the Guantánamo plea deal for the August 9, 2024, e…

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August 13, 2024 at 5:53 PM

'Google Is Able to Profit Extraordinarily Off of Not Having Competition'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Google Is Able to Profit Extraordinarily Off of Not Having Competition' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the American Economic Liberties Project's Lee Hepner about the Google monopoly for the August 9, 2024, episode of …

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August 9, 2024 at 10:11 PM

Mideast Escalation... VP Not Picked... Google Monopoly....

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August 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM

NYT Cynically Suggests Antisemitism Cost Shapiro the VP Slot

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Cynically Suggests Antisemitism Cost Shapiro the VP Slot Ari Paul   Haven’t you heard? Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s decision to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate was based in antise…

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August 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM

Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240809.mp3   This week on CounterSpin: You don’t…

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August 8, 2024 at 4:01 PM

'DEI Has Become the New N-Word'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'DEI Has Become the New N-Word' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed author and educator Tim Wise about 'DEI hires' for the August 2, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrr…

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August 7, 2024 at 9:40 PM

Pundits Push for Regional Escalation in the Wake of Israeli Assassinations

All posts View article on FAIR's website Pundits Push for Regional Escalation in the Wake of Israeli Assassinations Gregory Shupak   Following Israel’s assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut—along with a woman and two children (Al Jazeera, 7/30/24)—and…

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August 6, 2024 at 8:50 PM

'The Problem Is, There's No Place for Anyone to Go'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Problem Is, There's No Place for Anyone to Go' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Food Not Bombs' Keith McHenry about criminalizing homelessness for the August 2, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited…

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August 2, 2024 at 8:30 PM

Bad Advice for Harris... 'DEI Hire'... Ableism & Elections....

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August 2, 2024 at 11:56 AM

Tim Wise on 'DEI Hires,' Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused

All posts View article on FAIR's website Tim Wise on 'DEI Hires,' Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240802.mp3   This week on CounterSpin: Dog whistle…

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August 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM

How Sinclair Sneaks Right-Wing Spin Into Millions of Households

All posts View article on FAIR's website How Sinclair Sneaks Right-Wing Spin Into Millions of Households Pete Tucker   With the presidential contest in full swing, the Sinclair Broadcast Group appears to be ramping up its right-wing propaganda again. While millions of Ame…

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August 1, 2024 at 7:55 PM

When Does Concern About Presidential Fitness Become Media Ableism?

All posts View article on FAIR's website When Does Concern About Presidential Fitness Become Media Ableism? Justine Barron   The Economist published a cover story on July 6 with the stark image of a walker, a mobility device typically used by disabled people, with the Uni…

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July 31, 2024 at 8:29 PM

'Our Most Important Democratic Document Was Intended to Make the Country Less Democratic'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Our Most Important Democratic Document Was Intended to Make the Country Less Democratic' Janine Jackson     Janine Jackson interviewed Mother Jones' Ari Berman, about right-wing plans for minority rule, for the July 26, 2024, epis…

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July 30, 2024 at 10:09 PM

Abandoning Popular Policies is Crucial to Victory, WaPo Tells Harris

All posts View article on FAIR's website Abandoning Popular Policies is Crucial to Victory, WaPo Tells Harris Conor Smyth   With Joe Biden’s historic decision to step aside as Democratic nominee for president and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, the …

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July 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM

Moving Harris to the Right... Crime & the Election... Minority Rule....

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July 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM

NYT's Predictable Advice for Kamala Harris: Go Right

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT's Predictable Advice for Kamala Harris: Go Right Julie Hollar   As the Democratic Party began to coalesce behind Kamala Harris, the New York Times' popular Morning newsletter (7/23/24) quickly put forward the knee-jerk corporat…

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July 26, 2024 at 3:36 PM

Ari Berman on Minority Rule

All posts View article on FAIR's website Ari Berman on Minority Rule CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240726.mp3   Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024) This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump sai…

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July 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM

Crime Is Way Down—But NYT Won't Stop Telling Voters to Worry About Crime

All posts View article on FAIR's website Crime Is Way Down—But NYT Won't Stop Telling Voters to Worry About Crime Jim Naureckas   In a piece factchecking Donald Trump's claims in his acceptance speech at the 2024 Republican convention, the New York Times' Steven Rattner (…

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July 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM

'We Have More People Supporting the Rights of Palestinians to Life; It's Huge'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'We Have More People Supporting the Rights of Palestinians to Life; It's Huge' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis about Israel's war on Palestinians for the July 19, 2024, e…

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July 19, 2024 at 10:15 PM

Trump Shooting... Anti-Trans Pseudoscience... Bennis on Gaza....

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July 19, 2024 at 9:57 PM

Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage of 'Cass Review'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage of 'Cass Review' Lexi Koren   Imagine that you’re the parent of a child who suffers from a rare mental health condition that causes anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation…

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July 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM

Phyllis Bennis on Israel's War on Palestinians

All posts View article on FAIR's website Phyllis Bennis on Israel's War on Palestinians CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240719.mp3   Electronic Intifada (7/15/24) This week on CounterSpin: …

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July 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM

Trump's Shooting Should Not Silence Warnings About His Threat to Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website Trump's Shooting Should Not Silence Warnings About His Threat to Democracy Julie Hollar   Immediately after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, when little was known about the white male shooter (except that he was a regi…

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July 15, 2024 at 3:24 PM

Fundraising Update: Thank You!

Fundraising Update: Thank You! View this email in your browser   Fundraising Update: Thank You! Dear FAIR friend,    Last month, we had a big push to try to close a more than $200,000 gap in our fun…

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July 12, 2024 at 9:21 PM

Anti-Vax PsyOps... Italian Fascism... Jane McAlevey....

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July 12, 2024 at 6:41 PM

US Media Coverage of Anti-Vax Disinformation Quietly Stops at the Pentagon

All posts View article on FAIR's website US Media Coverage of Anti-Vax Disinformation Quietly Stops at the Pentagon Tyler Poisson     Reuters (6/14/24) reported that the US military was behind social media messages like "“COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came …

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July 12, 2024 at 4:09 PM

Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor

All posts View article on FAIR's website Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240712.mp3   CNN (…

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July 9, 2024 at 9:37 PM

Italy’s Antisemitism Scandal Should Have Raised Alarms in US

All posts View article on FAIR's website Italy’s Antisemitism Scandal Should Have Raised Alarms in US Ari Paul   Reuters (6/27/24) noted that Meloni's Brothers of Italy party "traces its roots to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), formed in 1946 as a direct heir of Beni…

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July 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM

'The Design of These Systems Keeps People in Opposition to Each Other'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Design of These Systems Keeps People in Opposition to Each Other' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Northwestern University's Hatim Rahman about algorithms and labor for the July 5, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This…

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July 6, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Lab Leak Revisited... Algorithms at Work... Cannabis Equity....

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