

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Apr 14, 2023 • 28min
Taxes: Who Pays and What For?
Tax season leads some of us to ponder what we get in return for our resources—streets and stop signs, to be sure, but also wars.

Apr 7, 2023 • 28min
Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing
Crushing Starbucks workers' attempts to work together is against the law—but it's not the sort of crime elite media seem able to identify.

Mar 31, 2023 • 28min
Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage
Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy.

Mar 24, 2023 • 28min
Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later
What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying.

Mar 17, 2023 • 28min
Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests
The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames.

Mar 10, 2023 • 28min
Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race
Media interest in historic breakthroughs should extend to the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policies could address them.

Mar 3, 2023 • 28min
Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis
Jackson, Mississippi, residents who have been harmed many times over are being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice.

Feb 24, 2023 • 28min
Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now.

Feb 17, 2023 • 28min
Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security
Saying how hard you want to be on "dealers" is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.

Feb 10, 2023 • 28min
Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC
What could be happening if Biden's long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through?