FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
If the Chauvin verdict is testament to the power of protest, so too are the vigorous efforts to squelch that power. Plus: Right-wing legislators target trans kids at the state level.
While recognizing that it’s not the sole source of inequality, there are things we can do about blatant, enduring and powerful unfairness in US tax policy.
Daniel Hale stands convicted of revealing things the US government didn’t want known about its drone warfare programs—the ones elite media have often presented as precise in separating “bad guys” from “innocents.”
If we don’t learn from this pandemic that none of us can be healthy unless all of us are healthy, how many chances will we get?
Many are simply fed up with the idea that change is too hard. Will media conversation shift to keep up with them?
It’s almost as if the corporate press accepted the existence of information haves and have-nots, because that’s how goods get divided in this country—even if it doesn’t make technological, economic or humanitarian sense.
Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole “one person one vote” thing is a legitimate topic for debate?
While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one “essential” yet somehow expendable group: Black women.
If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.
We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations–plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while it was happening.
Puzzling out what’s behind the “more war will lead to peace” argument in Afghanistan–and listening to people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they’ve lived under for more than 70 years.
The disasters of climate disruption have next to no relationship to what corporate media say is “feasible” to address them.
For many women, overturning Roe v. Wade would not suddenly shut down access to abortion, simply because many women already lack that access.
Conversations about Flint on CounterSpin, in its particulars and in terms of how it fits into bigger questions around environmental racism, resource control and local governance.
Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as “unprecedented”; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we’ve already had.
Media who egged on Trump’s candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party’s every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would.
A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.
While we await the day that Trump’s face and voice are no longer at the top of every newscast, it ain’t over til it’s over. And harms he does as a lame duck are harms nonetheless.
Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers’ health and safety a “tradeoff” for Covid relief.
Trump’s obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.
