CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Feb 3, 2023 • 28min

Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering

Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War.
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Jan 27, 2023 • 28min

Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS

The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford.
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Jan 20, 2023 • 28min

Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba

Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
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Jan 13, 2023 • 28min

David Sirota on Accountability Journalism

The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.
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Jan 6, 2023 • 28min

Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy

There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."
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Dec 30, 2022 • 28min

Best of CounterSpin 2022

CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.
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Dec 23, 2022 • 28min

Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report

The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.
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Dec 9, 2022 • 28min

Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act

Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.
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Dec 2, 2022 • 28min

Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying

The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers.
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Nov 25, 2022 • 28min

Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa

The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested.

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