

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Sep 9, 2022 • 28min
Matt Gertz and Eric K Ward on White ‘Replacement’ Theory
News media missed an opportunity to interrogate the media outlets and politicians who repeatedly invoke the white replacement idea.

Sep 2, 2022 • 28min
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing
The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands.

Aug 26, 2022 • 28min
Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation
The corporate media narrative on Israel/Palestine makes it hard to make sense of the recent assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip.

Aug 19, 2022 • 28min
Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation
We have some questions about the US government's claim that this time, they're really bringing stability and security to Central America.

Aug 12, 2022 • 28min
Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War
Alex Jones' lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would "distract from the main issues." What are the "main issues" about Jones?

Aug 5, 2022 • 28min
Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy
This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these ideas in various forms before; […]

Jul 29, 2022 • 28min
Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup
There's a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings.

Jul 22, 2022 • 28min
Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection
This week on CounterSpin: The internet has changed the way we communicate, access information and even organize, which means concerns about digital privacy are concerns about privacy, period. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing for the criminalization of abortion, our ability to safely access information and health care […]

Jul 15, 2022 • 28min
Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights, Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice
This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court’s reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it’s hard to know where to look. It’s worth tracing things back—Katherine Stewart in the Guardian, among others, walks us through how, at a time when most Protestant Republicans, including the Southern Baptist Convention, hailed the liberalization […]

Jul 8, 2022 • 28min
Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters
A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents.