FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin040111 Stephen Zunes and Karen Greenberg @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin040111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The U.S.-led NATO bombing of Libya was supposed to last just a few days. It was supposed to just protect Libyan civilians. And, according to the White House, we weren’t supposed to think of it as a war at all—it is […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin032511 Asli Bali and Alia Malek @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin032511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The U.S.’s sudden military involvement in Libya raises many questions that have not been answered by officials who’ve plunged the country into a war they say is to protect civilians, or even asked by many journalists who have been too busy […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin031811 Arjun Makhijani and Cindy Folkers @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin031811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Ever notice how corporate media coverage of nuclear accidents largely avoids industry critics, in favor of industry defenders generally low-balling the health and safety dangers of the technology? That’s never been truer than in coverage of the Japanese nuclear disaster, which, […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin031111 Phyllis Bennis and Graham Rayman @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin031111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Soldiers loyal to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi continue their assault on rebels, nearly a month into the democratic uprising there. Media are debating how and when and even whether the US should intervene, but how much of their reasoning has anything to […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin030411 Chuck Collins and Laura Flanders @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin030411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: As politicians of both parties and pundits of various ideological stripes discuss what services and rights need to be cut and stripped from working people, the subject of raising taxes seem almost taboo in corporate media discussions. Not so here. We’ll […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin022511 Laura Dresser and Dean Baker @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin022511.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s move to strip collective bargaining rights from state workers, because he says he need to close his state’s looming $3.6 billion budget deficit, is being resisted in the streets of Madison, but not so much in the […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin021811 David Swanson and Aram Roston @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin021811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The federal budget is big news this week, but while your hearing all the calls for cuts, cuts and more cuts, ask yourself, what isn’t considered an acceptable target for substantive reductions? Here’s a hint: it accounts for more than half […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin020411 Adil Shamoo and Fawaz Gerges @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin020411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The massive uprising in Egypt has been covered as a story of violent clashes and an awakening on the so-called ‘Arab Street.’ As we record this program, some pro-Mubarak forces are attacking journalists. Plenty of U.S. coverage focuses on the U.S. […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin012811 Laila El Haddad and Robert Weissman @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin012811.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper are publishing what are being called the Palestine Papers, leaked documents relating to the Israel-Palestine negotiations. The revelations, mostly of significant Palestinian concessions, are mostly being ignored in the U.S. media, dismissed as things […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin012111 Helena Cobban and Wayne Au @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin012111.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Tunisia is hardly ever in the US news, but when demonstrations by a largely secular movement led to the ouster of the country’s long-ruling, American-backed dictator, US elite media took notice. We’ll talk with Helena Cobban of JustWorldNews about what is […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin011411 Chip Berlet and Ladd Everitt @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin011411.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: What do we know about alleged Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner’s world view, which has been described as rambling, incoherent and non political in various news media reports? And what of the right-wing backlash attacking anyone who even suggests that vitriolic […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin010711 Bob Parry and Nancy Lockhart @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin010711.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: the Tea Party takes power in Washington. The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives brought a certain type of political theater—giant gavels, the reading of the Constitution, and John Boehner’s tears. But there is another kind of theater to […]
A military attack on Iran is under increasing discussion in U.S. corridors of power. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called for a war to “neuter” the Iranian regime, and former CIA chief Michael Hayden says an attack on Iran “seems inexorable”—and may not be the “worst of all possible outcomes.” Media are doing their part, […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin123110 Best of CounterSpin 2010 @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin123110.mp3″] Download MP3 Welcome to the Best Of CounterSpin for 2010. We think all of our shows are important, and shed some light on how media work and the stories they tell. But, at the end of the year, some stories stand out — for the omissions or confusions […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin122410 Trudy Lieberman and Lee Stranahan @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin122410.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Following a federal court ruling in Virginia finding the individual mandate provision of the 2010 healthcare act unconstitutional, there was some solid coverage of the Constitutional issues involved in a policy that will, if ultimately upheld, require every American to purchase […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121710 Michael Dorsey and Bob McIntyre @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121710.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: On the Fox News the story of the recently concluded UN climate summit was that it was really cold in Cancun, where the summit was held, so what was the point? Even actual journalists didn’t seem to find much to say […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin121010 Glenn Greenwald @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin121010.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The journalism organization WikiLeaks is under massive attack by U.S. government officials, corporations, and journalists. Many are calling for the group and its spokesperson Julian Assange to be prosecuted; some have even called for Assange’s execution or assassination. Transnational companies like Visa, MasterCard and […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin120310 Robert Naiman and Richard Prince @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin120310.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: WikiLeaks strikes again, this time with the release of 250,000 diplomatic cables that shed considerable light on how U.S. foreign policy is conducted. The headlines so far are about Iran’s weapons and the perilous situation in Pakistan. But one story hasn’t […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin111210 William Greider and Ali Gharib @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin111210.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of the G-20 summit in Seoul is squarely focused on trade deals and U.S. relations with China. But is the whole discussion of globalization, China and trade missing the point? William Greider makes that case in a new piece in […]
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin102210 Steve Rendall and Julie Hollar @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin102210.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: What’s public about public TV? That’s the question posed by new research by FAIR, the group that brings you this show. PBS was founded to serve as a real alternative to commercial television, to be the place where you could find […]
