

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Sep 24, 2021 • 28min
David Moore on Manchin’s Conflict, Jim Naureckas on Covid and Media
"We’re going to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels."

Sep 17, 2021 • 28min
Milton Allimadi on US Media’s Africa Reporting
Racist fables, omissions and hypocrisy have plagued US media's Africa reporting through history and up to today.

Sep 10, 2021 • 28min
Marjorie Cohn on Texas Abortion Law, Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities
The Supreme Court refused to address, which amounts to an endorsement, what is overwhelmingly understood as an unconstitutional Texas law.

Sep 3, 2021 • 28min
Rick Claypool on OxyContin Bankruptcy, Dean Baker on Economic Disconnects
A bankruptcy ruling shields the Sackler family, profiteers on Oxycontin, responsible for, conservatively, half a million deaths by overdose.

Aug 27, 2021 • 28min
James Loewen on Lies Historians Tell Us
Some US media are now lauding Jim Loewen, but without ceasing to generate the very sort of misty misinformation he fought against.

Aug 20, 2021 • 28min
Phyllis Bennis and Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan Withdrawal
US media consumers may need not a broom but a shovel to deal with the self-aggrandizing, history-erasing misinformation headed our way.

Aug 13, 2021 • 28min
Jeff Cohen on FAIR’s Beginnings
Listeners to this show may take it as a given that, if you care about social, racial, economic justice, you have to also care about media—because corporate news media promote narratives that shape public opinion, public policy and all of our lives.

Aug 6, 2021 • 28min
James Early on Cuban Embargo, David Cooper on ‘We All Quit’
The hardships facing Cubans—and the actions the United States could take to stop contributing to those hardships.

Jul 30, 2021 • 28min
Luke Harris on Critical Race Theory, Cindy Cohn on Pegasus Spyware
Media have misinformed the public about a campaign whose own architects say is about disinforming, confusing and inflaming people.

Jul 23, 2021 • 28min
Bianca Nozaki-Nasser on Anti-Asian Bias
Media's prescription of law enforcement as the primary response is called by many Asian Americans a problem presenting itself as a solution,