CounterSpin

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CounterSpin

CounterSpin, the weekly radio program of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism

    Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.

    28 min

  2. FEB 21

    Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing, Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness

    Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.

    28 min

  3. FEB 14

    Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021)

    Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.

    28 min

  4. FEB 12

    NYT Advises Trump to Kill More Venezuelans 

    New York Times columnist Bret Stephens made an overt case for US military intervention to topple Venezuela’s government.

  5. FEB 7

    Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health

    The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

    28 min

  6. JAN 31

    David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying

    The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

    28 min

  7. JAN 24

    Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants

    Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

    28 min

  8. JAN 17

    Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024)

    Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

    28 min
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CounterSpin, the weekly radio program of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news’ narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.

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  • Creator
    Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
  • Years Active
    2005 - 2025
  • Episodes
    263
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    CounterSpin

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