This week on CounterSpin: A Trump presidency requires vigilance on many fronts, but the human rights of half the population should be high on the list. The thing is, for corporate media, abortion access is primarily a “hot topic”—rather than a material fact of life for women and families. We’ll talk about the human beings involved in the fight for reproductive rights with Destiny Lopez of the group All Above All.
Transcript: ‘That Punishment of Women Is Already Happening’
Also on the show: Even if Trump, who lost the popular vote, had not won the presidency, his campaign had already had impact. Reports of hate crimes in which Trump is evoked suggest that racists, sexists, xenophobes feel emboldened. How can reporters address this phenomenon? We’ll talk about how they can and why they must with journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica.
Transcript: ‘We Need to Give Voice to the People Who Feel Terrified’
Our quick look back at the week’s press examines Malcolm Gladwell’s misrepresentation of Daniel Ellsberg.
What about the claim that most of these hate crimes are fake? I am sure that unhinged people caused some fakes, but how to compare real versus fake, and talk about the result in a convincing manner?
How can you carry a name like “fair.org” and clearly carry such a liberal agenda ? It is because of sites like this that Trump got elected. The people are tired of news with a political agenda.
Fair. Org must be defunbed. And then scattered into oblivian.