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CounterSpin Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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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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Chris Bernadel on Haiti
What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.
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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.
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Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.
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Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.
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Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.
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Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.