

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.