CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Nov 18, 2022 • 28min

Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory

It's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction.
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Nov 11, 2022 • 28min

Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage

The affordable housing crisis is not just capitalism run amok, because that doesn't happen without government involvement.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 28min

Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action

US news media ignore the role US intervention has played throughout Haitian history in order to push for the same sort of intervention again.
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Oct 28, 2022 • 28min

Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update

Overt, proud-of-it bias has shaped coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the outset, and current mentions suggest little has changed.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 28min

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms

Election coverage should be judged not by how reporters "treat" Democrats or Republicans, but about how they inform and engage the public.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 28min

Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency

Growing numbers of people have concerns, not just about uncritical US support for Israel, but also about the shutdown of critics.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 28min

John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing

With tens of thousands of workers walking out around the country, the notion that this is somehow not meaningful should be hard to maintain.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 28min

Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse

Tax giveaways to non–Puerto Ricans mean money not going to Puerto Rico's energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 28min

Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations

US news media need to not only acknowledge inflicting racist harms, but take seriously the idea of repairing them.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 28min

Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage

For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement.

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