CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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Sep 6, 2024 • 28min

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy

A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
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Aug 30, 2024 • 28min

Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger

Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.
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Aug 23, 2024 • 28min

Steve Macek on Dark Money

How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?
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Aug 16, 2024 • 28min

Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies

The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.
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Aug 9, 2024 • 28min

Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal

Does the company that "corners the market" do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.
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Aug 2, 2024 • 28min

Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused

The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”
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Jul 26, 2024 • 28min

Ari Berman on Minority Rule

If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
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Jul 19, 2024 • 28min

Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians

Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.
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Jul 12, 2024 • 28min

Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor

At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.
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Jul 5, 2024 • 28min

Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ ‘Invisible Cage’

Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.

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