CounterSpin’s Janine Jackson
All year long, CounterSpin brings you a look, as we say, behind the headlines of the mainstream news—that’s both to shine a light on aspects of emerging stories that might be marginalized (or off the page entirely) in corporate media, and to remind us to be generally mindful of the practices and policies of elite news media that make it an unlikely arena for a full, vital debate on issues that matter—in which those outside of social and economic power can have their voices and their ideas heard.
So we bring you these selections from the year just gone, not to say that these were the most important stories or the most ignored perspectives—but just to say that these are some the cases that illustrate the kinds of questions we ought to always be thinking about as we read the paper or watch the news.
Interviews excerpted in this year’s Best of CounterSpin include:
- Journalist and activist Keane Bhatt on what CNN‘s characterization of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address as “very progressive” said about elite media’s connection to public opinion.
- FAIR’s Jim Naureckas on how op-ed writers at the nation’s big papers distorted history in their complaints about how the film Selma treated President Lyndon Johnson.
- Carlos Miller of Photography Is Not A Crime on how filming police can counteract official efforts to control the narrative in cases of violence by law enforcement.
- Professor and author Felicia Kornbluh revisiting Bill Clinton’s op-ed victory lap on the 10th anniversary of his bipartisan effort to take federal aid away from poor people.
- Professor and author Dean Spade on how media visibility is not the best barometer of progress for marginalized groups like trans people.
- Writer, producer and former CounterSpin host Laura Flanders on a project that explores alternative economic visions—alternative, that is, to the workplace models that elite media generally present as the only viable option.
”Wealth is the root of all evil”
Now if everyone in the lower half of society, the laboring-class, if they were to peddle bicycles, eat vegetarian and buy nothing that was advertised, surely the more knowledgeable upper-half would all go bankrupt and be in desperate need of the humility required to do manual labor. Either that or starve to death, the fait they have always degreed for those among the homeless.
For since the beginning of civilization, the more knowledgeable upper-half of society in all nations has hoarded all the wealth and for no other purpose then slavery, has kept the laboring-class lower-half impoverished.
The root cause being the lust for wealth.
For wealth is the property we own above what is needed for a healthy life.
Greater your wealth, greater the perception you deserve wealth and greater your desire to hoard. The root cause of global warming.
Greater your wealth, greater your pride and the greater your bigotry, predigest and hatred of those below your class.
Owning wealth causes one to value property over people, for to own wealth means that you are willing to protect wealth by killing people.
For the upper-half hoarding all the wealth, this is what caused the 51% most wealthy to be the voting majority, what caused most politicians to be war-hawks hell-bent on wars of aggression, what now causes the police to rightly assume that the voting majority wants them to kill any laboring man who treats with contempt their power and authority.
So, the solution is most doable, as the laboring-class lower-half have never owned a penny of wealth, not since the beginning of civilization. And so, let us nationalize all the wealth, use it first to eliminate global warming and then on to mass transit, repair of infrastructure and all things needed for prosperity in abundance.
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) lives up to it’s name, but there is far more to be done:
1) The Republican global warming deniers now running for President are unacceptable candidates.
2) The media refuse to accept the fact that guns must be banned from private ownership.
3) If we fail to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, mankind will become extinct.
TO — Old Fogy
(1) Can’t see our voting majority being so stupid as to give such a fascist Republican the keys to the White House. For not by stupidity has the 51% most wealthy been able to hoard all the wealth and enslave the laboring-class lower-half of society.
(2) Such passive followers are the laboring-class lower half that they neither go to the pools nor own guns. So, the upper half are the voting majority dictators and as they own 99% of guns, such slave-driver terrorism never ends.
(3) The upper half of Empire USA has owned half of the wealth on mother earth since World War II, the root cause of global warming and such an addiction to the power and glory of wealth is it that unless we nationalize all of the wealth in our Empire, we will overproduce our way to extinction. And so doable easy is the solution, for in a nation where no wealth is hoarded nor hidden, where all wealth is constantly flowing throughout the economy, surely no one suffers want, no one goes hungry and everyone enjoys free healthcare.
hahaha, Carlos Miller is no journalist. He worked for the Republic in Phoenix and was nearly fired because he couldn’t string a sentence together. Keane Bhatt is nothing more than an activist who spins the facts in his favor; not exactly trustworthy. Just look at his bizarre analyses from Venezuela. Try again FAIR.
Counterspin is no doubt badly needed programming, but this blog site provides the best postings and comments on the media I have seen all year.
On the two most important issues facing Americans, gun mayhem and the vast destruction by global warming already underway, the Fourth Estate has utterly failed the electorate, and FAIR is the only major site I know of that has the courage to say so, day in and day out.
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