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. 1 DAY AGO

    Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime

    Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

    28 min

  2. DEC 13

    Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide

    While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.

    28 min

  3. DEC 6

    Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight

    When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.

    28 min

  4. NOV 29

    Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict

    A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”

    28 min

  5. NOV 22

    Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting

    Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?

    28 min

  6. NOV 15

    Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)

    If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

    28 min

  7. NOV 8

    Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump

    We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.

    28 min

  8. NOV 1

    Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor

    News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.

    28 min
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About

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 - 2024
  • Episodes
    264
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    CounterSpin

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