

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Mar 29, 2024 • 28min
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Mar 22, 2024 • 28min
Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Mar 15, 2024 • 28min
Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.

Mar 8, 2024 • 28min
Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Mar 1, 2024 • 28min
Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.

Feb 23, 2024 • 28min
Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.

Feb 16, 2024 • 28min
Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”

Feb 9, 2024 • 28min
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.

Feb 2, 2024 • 28min
Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?

Jan 26, 2024 • 28min
Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting
Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.