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CounterSpin Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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4.8 • 471 Ratings
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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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Ari Berman on Minority Rule
If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
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Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians
Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.
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Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor
At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.
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Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ ‘Invisible Cage’
Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.
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David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage, Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity
The cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money.
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Saru Jayaraman on Tipped Wages
This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very […]
Customer Reviews
Thank you for the insight, wisdom and morality check.
Phyllis Bennis's call for ceasefire is right on!
Necessary Reporting About Traditional Media
CS gives me hope.
I subscribe to various news publications, including the NYT, WSJ, and Wash Post.
CS is necessary to balance their viewpoints and unfortunate bias towards money.
CS will continue to receive my subscription dollars before the others.
So Necessary
Consistently insightful. A necessary counterweight mainstream media.