CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Jul 16, 2021 • 28min
Chris Bernadel on Haitian Assassination, Michael Carome on FDA Alzheimer’s Investigation
The long history of the US using state force to kill Haitians and their aspirations is sufficient and appropriate context for current events.
Jul 9, 2021 • 28min
William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld
Nestle's profitability relies on a chocolate supply chain that includes literal slave labor in the Ivory Coast.
Jul 2, 2021 • 28min
Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change
How do we protect our society from campaigns to stop people from voting or speaking or going into the street to protest things that are wrong?
Jun 25, 2021 • 28min
Laura Carlsen on Biden’s Central America Policy, Greg LeRoy on Texas Corporate Subsidies
The notion of real change after Donald Trump is undermined by a close look at Biden's actual immigration policy.
Jun 18, 2021 • 28min
Andrew Perez on the Filibuster
The filibuster is the crucial backdrop to any conversation about the Biden agenda, though media don't always bring that point home.
Jun 11, 2021 • 28min
Jaisal Noor on Worker Co-Ops, Duncan Meisel on Fossil Fuel Greenwashing
In the way they balance worker health and company success, worker co-ops complicate corporate media's economic storyline.
Jun 4, 2021 • 28min
Joseph Torres on Media & Tulsa Massacre
Journalism has been central to public reckoning with the Tulsa massacre ever since that late May night 100 years ago.
May 28, 2021 • 28min
Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi
US corporate media don't seem to see a story worth telling in India, beyond how Modi might hold on to power despite some unfortunate "missteps."
May 21, 2021 • 28min
Preston Mitchum on Roe and Reproductive Justice, Steven Rosenfeld on Arizona Audit
Who's speaking for the actual majority of US citizens who support a person's right to determine whether and when to have a child?
May 14, 2021 • 28min
Michael Hiltzik on ‘No One Wants to Work!’
Do elite media have space for people who don't want to risk their lives for less money than they need to live?
