
CounterSpin
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
Latest episodes

Mar 21, 2025 • 28min
Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks
All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.

Mar 14, 2025 • 28min
David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA
Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.

Mar 7, 2025 • 28min
Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing
Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.

Feb 28, 2025 • 28min
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.

Feb 21, 2025 • 28min
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.

Feb 14, 2025 • 28min
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.

Feb 7, 2025 • 28min
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."

Jan 31, 2025 • 28min
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.

Jan 24, 2025 • 28min
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.

Jan 17, 2025 • 28min
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.