

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.”

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."

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.

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.

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.