

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Aug 1, 2025 • 28min
Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Criminalizing Poverty
Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?

Jul 25, 2025 • 28min
Thom Hartmann on Epstein & MAGA, Han Shan (2009) on Ken Saro-Wiwa
To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.

Jul 18, 2025 • 28min
Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.

Jul 11, 2025 • 28min
Silky Shah on Mass Deportation
Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.

Jul 4, 2025 • 28min
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.

Jun 27, 2025 • 28min
Adam Johnson on Media in War Mode
US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.

Jun 20, 2025 • 28min
Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.

Jun 13, 2025 • 28min
Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness
There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.

Jun 6, 2025 • 28min
Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.

May 30, 2025 • 28min
Tom Morello on Music as Protest
Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.