David Roberts on coal, Julianne Hing on affirmative action
If you were unnerved to see Democratic and Republican presidential candidates competing over which was a bigger fan of coal, you weren’t alone. And: Is affirmative action in danger?
Brought to You by…Big Oil?
The Washington Post had a two-page spread in its September 11 edition devoted to a “debate” on energy policy. But industry critics were missing from the picture. Why? Perhaps because the oil industry, undisclosed to Post readers, was sponsoring the discussion.
Antonia Juhasz on BP anniversary, Lee Fang on Hilary Rosen
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin042012 Antonia Juhasz and Lee Fang @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin042012.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: This week marks the two-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Media will be checking in on the Gulf to mark the anniversary—but what will their reporting on this ongoing environmental catastrophe look like? We’ll talk to journalist Antonia […]
Brendan DeMelle on fracking, David Swanson on Rachel Maddow
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin040612 Brendan DeMelle and David Swanson @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin040612.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: You’ve heard the gas industry PR—their ads are all over television and public radio. And the message—that gas drilling is a safe, affordable path to energy independence—is being echoed by some pundits. Anti-fracking activists sure think otherwise, and they’re challenging the […]
Tyson Slocum on gas prices, Andrew Coates on health care debate
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin032312 Tyson Slocum and Andrew Coates @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin032312.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The right is charging that Barack Obama is responsible for high gas prices, but it’s a given among liberals that Barack Obama has no power over the matter. Media Matters and Think Progress have published pieces chiding Fox News blaming Obama […]
Harvey Wasserman on Solyndra, Diane Ravitch and Brian Jones on MisEducation Nation
[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 […]
Lorne Stockman on Keystone pipeline, Faiz Shakir on ‘Fear Inc.’
[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 […]
Karl Grossman & Steve Wing on Fukushima
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin081211 Karl Grossman and Steve Wing @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin081211.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Japan’s Foreign Minister has told officials to stop claiming Japanese food is safe. This after beef contaminated by radiation from Fukushima’s No. 1 nuclear power plant was sold and consumed around the country. Meanwhile a devastating report from Associated Press reveals […]
Harvey Wasserman on Fukushima; Andrew Fieldhouse on Bush tax cuts
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin061011 Harvey Wasserman and Andrew Fieldhouse @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin061011.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: After a lull in reporting about the Japanese nuclear disaster comes news that officials there are admitting that radiation releases were much larger than previously claimed– not a surprise to critics who saw those early claims as part of a government/corporate/media […]
Miranda Spencer on renewable energy, Mike Ervin on Medicaid protests
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin051311 Miranda Spencer and Mike Ervin @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin051311.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: What are renewables and why are media telling us so little about them? With energy prices rising, and a nuclear disaster still unfolding in Japan, it would seem to be the perfect time to talk about renewable energy sources, like solar, […]
Matthew Alexander on torture, Tyson Slocum on gas prices
[mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin050611 Matthew Alexander and Tyson Slocum @https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin050611.mp3″] Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: The killing of Osama bin Laden has delivered plenty of media themes: Can the U.S. trust Pakistan? What does this mean for Al Qaeda? And, predictably enough, did Bush-era torture help find the al Qaeda leader? Torture advocates’ insistence that this […]
After Fukushima, Media Still Buying Nuclear Spin
Ever since the start of nuclear technology, those behind it have made heavy use of deception, obfuscation and denial—with the complicity of most of the media. New York Times reporter William Laurence, working at the same time with the Manhattan Project, wrote a widely published press release covering up the first nuclear test in New […]
The Unrenewed Debate Over Renewable Energy
When the March 11 earthquake and tsunami shut down cooling systems at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, U.S. government and nuclear industry spin control kicked in, asserting that a similar disaster couldn’t happen here, and that atomic power is here to stay. Corporate news outlets typically got caught up in this spin, relaying distorted and/or […]
Still Drill, Baby—Despite Spill
News coverage in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill downplayed the harm, reasserted the need for offshore drilling and minimized the White House’s—and the corporate media’s—recent endorsement of additional offshore oil exploration.
‘You Fearmonger as a Way to Get Viewers’
It’s hard to imagine a worse situation than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Niger delta in Nigeria has by some accounts suffered spills equaling the Exxon Valdez every year for five decades. Besides the rare report, though, you wouldn’t know about that from U.S. corporate media. FAIR’s radio show CounterSpin […]
Joshua Holland on Afghanistan, Sandy Cioffi on Nigeria’s oil drilling crisis
Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin, Gen. Stanley McChrystal is out as commander of troops in Afghanistan after derisive remarks he and aides made about the White House and the war to Rolling Stone magazine. But in all the folderol about insubordination and civilian command, are reporters missing the real story? We’ll talk to Joshua […]
Riki Ott & Tim Dickinson on BP Gulf disaster
Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin, two angles on the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history, the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is trying to control what you know about the catastrophe. What’s more, the company has enlisted federal and local government agencies to help censor information about the damage, […]
Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Robert Alvarez on nuclear power
Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen says it’s time to “fight crazy with crazy” on Iran’s nuclear policy. If that passes for discussion of diplomacy in the corporate press, maybe we should look beyond them for interpretation of the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report. We’ll be talking with analyst […]
Network Nukes Boosters
On February 16, ABC World News and NBC Nightly News aired incomplete and unbalanced reports following Barack Obama’s announcement of $8 billion in new loan guarantees for a nuclear power plant in Georgia. ABC reporter Jake Tapper announced that “for years leading Democrats and liberals opposed nuclear energy. No new nukes was the cry. So […]
Sidelining Cap and Trade’s Green Critics
The sweeping bill to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that moved through Congress over the last year received relatively scant media attention, taking a distant back seat to the healthcare reform bill and its attendant public uproar. And, much like the healthcare debate (Extra!, 10/09), coverage of climate-change legislation ended up obscuring the issues as much as […]
