

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Jun 7, 2024 • 28min
Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.

May 31, 2024 • 28min
Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.

May 24, 2024 • 28min
Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.

May 17, 2024 • 28min
Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors
The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.

May 10, 2024 • 28min
Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion
US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.

May 3, 2024 • 28min
Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.

Apr 26, 2024 • 28min
Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.

Apr 19, 2024 • 28min
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

Apr 12, 2024 • 28min
Chris Bernadel on Haiti
What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Apr 5, 2024 • 28min
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.