CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Nov 10, 2023 • 28min

Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson

Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
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Nov 3, 2023 • 28min

Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre

“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
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Oct 27, 2023 • 28min

Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism

Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
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Oct 20, 2023 • 28min

Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters

The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
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Oct 13, 2023 • 28min

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza

This week on CounterSpin:  In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]
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Oct 6, 2023 • 28min

Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft

Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.
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Sep 29, 2023 • 28min

Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment

The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.
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Sep 22, 2023 • 28min

Lisa Xu on Auto Workers Strike

An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time.
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Sep 15, 2023 • 28min

Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim

September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.
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Sep 8, 2023 • 28min

Amanda Yee on Korean Travel Ban, Hyun Lee on Korea History

Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms.

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