CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Apr 22, 2022 • 28min
Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy
Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show.
Apr 15, 2022 • 28min
Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’
The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions.
Apr 8, 2022 • 28min
Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Trump, Mike Liszewski on Marijuana Justice
This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy Pelosi wasn’t putting a stop to it. He doesn’t remember getting many phone calls, and he didn’t destroy any […]
Apr 1, 2022 • 28min
Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism
Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"?
Mar 25, 2022 • 28min
Carol Anderson on History, Race and Democracy
It's a good time to recall that we had a war in this country in which many people declared that they cared more about white supremacy.
Mar 18, 2022 • 28min
Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto
Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in crisis.
Mar 11, 2022 • 28min
Khury Petersen-Smith on Economic Sanctions, Greg LeRoy on Amazon Subsidies
Economic pressure is presented as a way of avoiding violence. But there's a problem with seeing sanctions as an alternative to war.
Mar 4, 2022 • 28min
Braxton Brewington on Student Loan Debt, Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights
Is what we call "higher" education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it could be decisive.
Feb 25, 2022 • 28min
Joseph Torres on Tulsa Massacre
This week on CounterSpin: Black History Month has always been something of a double-edged sword: It implies that Black history is somehow not “history,” that it has to be shoehorned in, “artificially,” to garner any value, with the corollary implication that if you choose to ignore it, you aren’t missing anything crucial. The idea […]
Feb 18, 2022 • 28min
Bryce Greene on Ukraine
Understanding the Ukraine crisis involves letting go of the storyline in which the US equals benevolent democracy and Russia equals craven imperialism.
