FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin123011 Best of CounterSpin 2011 @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin123011.mp3″] Download MP3 This week we’ll be bringing you just some of the highlights from the past year. We’ve had guests bringing us something other than the usual corporate media line on stories from the Arab Spring to trade policy, from Fukushima to Occupy Wall Street. We try throughout […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin122311 Joe Torres and Amy Alexander @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin122311.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin, a special look at race and people of color in U.S. journalism. Told quickly it’s a story about under representation and exclusion, of bias… and of breakthroughs. And all along, recognition that the stories news media tell us about the world […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121611 Jamilah King and John Knefel @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121611.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Few deny anymore that internet access is becoming critical to taking part in political and economic life. So, what does it matter that research shows that higher proportions of African Americans and Latinos than white people are achieving that access through […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin120911 Michael Dorsey and Karl Grossman @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin120911.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The annual United Nations meeting on climate change is underway. That might be news to you if you rely on television for your information. These international conferences tend to produce stories that dwell on the lack of progress, or the unwillingness […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin120211 Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Hannah Gurman @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin120211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Egypt just finished its first round of elections since the uprising earlier this year by democratic activists. So why aren’t the activists overjoyed? We’ll talk about the state of democracy in Egypt and the way US corporate media are covering […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin120111 Arun Gupta @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin120111.mp3″] Download MP3 The corporate media reaction to Occupy Wall Street started out where you’d expect. Coverage was minimal and what there was often amounted to back-of-the-hand dismissals of a movement that can’t even get its bullet points together. Then things started to shift: Maybe it was the arrests on the […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin112511 Charles Kurzman and Amy Goodman @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin112511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The coverage of the recent arrest of a would-be Muslim terrorist ready to carry out attacks here at home had a we’ve-been-here-before feel. Whatever questions might surround this particular case, most media consumers are by now accustomed to the general presumption […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin111811 Julie Berebitsky and Jim Horn @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin111811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Sexual harassment has been in the news recently because of allegations that GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s. But what does the way media discuss sexual harassment tell us about how we view women, especially working […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin111111 Cyrus Safdari and Frances Fox Piven @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin111111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The International Atomic Energy Agency published its latest report on Iran on November 8th, but for nearly two weeks beforehand news media were rife with leak-based stories promising the report would be “game changing.” What did it actually say, and […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin110411 Costas Panayotakis and Nusrat Choudhury @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin110411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: This is how ABC anchor Diane Sawyer explained the Greek crisis: “The Dow down nearly 300 points, so, what changed? Well, blame it on the country of Greece, long criticized for being undisciplined and now threatening American retirements.” With the EU […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin102811 John Feffer and Heidi Garrett Peltier @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin102811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: When Barack Obama ordered armed military advisors to central Africa to help regional officials fight the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony, few journalists asked why or why now. The fact that the LRA is bad seemed […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin102111 Todd Tucker and Karuna Jaggar @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin102111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The congressional passage of so-called ‘free trade’ agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama was met with applause by many in the corporate media. The cheering was not only for the corporate friendly provisions of the bills, but for what journalists […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin101411 Arun Gupta and Jasmin Ramsey @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin101411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Did the corporate media turn on the Occupy Wall Street protests? When the protests started, the media story was a familiar one—the press ignored them, then derided activists for being leaderless, bongo pounding know-nothings. But then something happened, and suddenly anti-Wall […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin100711 Harvey Wasserman and Diane Ravitch and Brian Jones @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin100711.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The Solyndra scandal is the kind of story tailor made for Fox News: A green jobs creating solar power company receiving millions of dollars of taxpayer funds celebrated by the Obama White House… goes belly up. Much of […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin093011 Allison Kilkenny and Moshe Adler @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin093011.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Yes, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations aren’t being covered much in the corporate media. But then when papers like the New York Times come down to take a look, one might wish they hadn’t. We’ll talk to Allison Kilkenny of Citizen […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin092711 Neil deMouse and Phyllis Bennis @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin092711.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Census Bureau data showing one in six Americans live in poverty was received soberly by the press corps, but should it have surprised them? And what about next week, when the government doesn’t release a report and people are still poor? […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin091611 Brandi Grissom and Tom Engelhardt @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin091611.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: For a lot of people, the Republican debate on September 9 had one memorable moment: when Texas governor Rick Perry was asked about his state’s death penalty record, the audience cheered wildly. Moderator Brian Williams wanted to know if Perry lost […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin090911 Katie Galloway and Yousef Munayyer @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin090911.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Two men were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention and charged with a firebombing plot. For the FBI and headline writers, violent domestic terrorists had been thwarted before the act. The new film Better This World takes another look at […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin090211 Lorne Stockman and Faiz Shakir @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin090211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Why have more than 700 people been arrested at the White House in recent days? Don’t ask nightly news– they’ve so far yet to find anything newsworthy in the largest environmental action in years: a massive protest against the proposed Keystone […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin082611 Faiza Patel and Rena Steinzor @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin082611.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: An Associated Press report about how the New York City Police Department is working with the CIA to carry out domestic spying operations on minorities in cities across the U.S., is making some waves, and raising questions about ethnic and racial […]
