CounterSpin

This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.” The case was about whether there was a problem with a Washington […]

It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on.

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating,

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines.

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there.

This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life is […]

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people.

Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football.

A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it.

"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time.