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This week on CounterSpin: Remember when Les Moonves declared that Donald Trump’s candidacy “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS“? That wasn’t a faux pas; it was an operating principle. And we can’t be shocked that it’s carrying through to coverage of the Democratic primary process, which has foregrounded far more “radical” ideas—and public receptivity to them—than corporate elites are comfortable with. We’ll take a look at election coverage with Jim Naureckas, editor of FAIR.org and FAIR’s newsletter Extra!.
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Transcript: ‘Corporate Media Are Not Observers of the Electoral Process; They Are Participants’
Decriminalizing Survival
Also on the show: It’s not wrong to say that the movement to decriminalize sex work “divides allies,” as the New York Times had it. But recent polls show the idea garnering widespread public support, for perhaps the first time, and the range of groups signed on to a new policy memo—the ACLU and the Women’s March, Immigrant Defense Project and Mijente, the Transgender Law Center and Black Youth Project 100—suggest a number of communities looking for a new way forward. The memo, called Decriminalizing Survival, was written by organizer Nina Luo, a fellow at Data for Progress. We’ll talk with her about that.
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Transcript: ‘What Does Criminalizing People Get Us, and What Does It Get Them?’
Jim’s analysis (on news coverage, and contorted attempts to minimize Bernie, etc.) was exactly spot-on.