CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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CounterSpin – January 29, 2023
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – January 29, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.…
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Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS
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‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’ - CounterSpin interview with Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Janine Jackson interviewed Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba for the January 20, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. CounterSpin230120Carney.mp3 MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2 = [ { name: "CounterSpin230120Carney.mp3", formats: ["mp3"], mp3: "aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb…
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CounterSpin – January 22, 2023
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Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
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Patrice Lumumba, 1960 (photo: Harry Pot) This week on CounterSpin: US media elites have gotten comfy with what writer Adam Johnson calls their “wall calendar version” of Martin Luther King, in which he represents the “good” left, unmoved by racial nationalism and Marxist ideology. With Patrice Lumumba, assassinated by the CIA on January 17, 1961, a…
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CounterSpin – January 15, 2023
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – January 15, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.…
The New York Times (10/31/15) used to think taking away “the only tool citizens have to fight illegal or deceitful business practices” was a bad thing. “Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice” was a headline on a groundbreaking New York Times report (10/31/15) from 2015. Reporters Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff looked in…
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David Sirota on Accountability Journalism
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Lever (1/8/23) This week on CounterSpin: US reporters used to talk, even brag, about telling the truth and letting the chips fall where they may, and more acutely, about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable—in other words about using their special, constitutional power to look behind curtains most of us can’t, and bring us meanin…
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CounterSpin – January 8, 2023
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – January 8, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.…
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Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy
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(NBC News, 12/29/22) This week on CounterSpin: Media criticism is, at its heart, consumer advocacy. There’s an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that goes: As a citizen you may have rights, but as a consumer, you don’t have anything called a “right”; the market is an arrangement—the best possible arrangement—but still, you can …
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CounterSpin – January 1, 2023
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – January 1, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.…
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Best of CounterSpin 2022
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All year long, CounterSpin brings you a look, as we say, behind the headlines of the mainstream news. We hope both to shine some light on aspects of news events—perspectives of those out of power, relevant but omitted history—important things that might be pushed to the side or off the page entirely in elite media reporting. But it’s also to remind…
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CounterSpin – December 25, 2022
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – December 25, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.…
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Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report
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Image from January 6 Report (photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images) This week on CounterSpin: The House committee on the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol heard more than 1,000 witness interviews and held multiple public hearings, resulting in criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Donald Trump, lawyer John Eastman and others involved in…
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CounterSpin – December 18, 2022
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – December 18, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.…
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CounterSpin – December 11, 2022
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Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act
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Truthout (11/12/22) This week on CounterSpin: Those listeners who have heard about Haaland v. Brackeen will know that that Supreme Court case is about considering the Indian Child Welfare Act—which is aimed at keeping Native communities together—to be “race-based,” and therefore unfair and unconstitutional. Opposing the actual mission of those who …
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CounterSpin – December 4, 2022
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Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying
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The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers. The post Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying appeared first on FAIR.Von Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa
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The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested. The post Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa appeared first on FAIR.Von Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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CounterSpin – November 20, 2022
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – November 20, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.…
Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media. The post While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers appeared first on FAIR.Von Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory
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It's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction. The post Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory appeared first on FAIR.Von Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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CounterSpin – November 13, 2022
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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – November 13, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.…