ACTION ALERT: NYT Falsely Reports That Attempts on Presidents’ Lives Are Rare
Please tell the New York Times to correct its false report about the uncommonness of presidential assassination attempts.
A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.
Gallup Ends Presidential Approval Polling After 88 Years—Likely Because a President Disapproved
Gallup’s extensive database had allowed journalists to compare approval ratings among all presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt at various stages of their tenure.
‘Advocates Know How to Fight Attempts to Repress Black History’:
CounterSpin interview with Naomi Bethune on anti-Black history
“Right now is the exact moment that we should be looking back on the conditions that marginalized people experienced at this country’s formal conception.”
Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month?
In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”
Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn’t just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
‘The FCC Is Trying to Roll Back Protections Won Over the Past 60 Years’:
CounterSpin interview with Joseph Torres on FCC and structural racism
“We have not reconciled the history of… how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country.”
‘Black History Is American History’:
CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history
“This administration is intent on repeating the sins of the past, which is why they don’t want people to learn about what happened in the past.”
Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists
The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.
With Zero Evidence, NPR Suggests Trump May ‘Work for Working Class’ in Second Term
NPR’s evidence that Trump is a “populist”—or at least has a populist lurking inside him—is remarkably thin.
‘There Are More Guns Than Americans, But Most of Them Are Owned by a Minority’
CounterSpin interview with Robert Spitzer on gun rights and rules
“Firearms and other weapons were regulated more strictly in the country’s first 300 years than in the last 30 years.”
Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide, Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules
Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?
‘Our Most Important Democratic Document Was Intended to Make the Country Less Democratic’:
CounterSpin interview with Ari Berman on minority rule
“The problem isn’t what people believe. It’s translating majority opinion into majority rule.”
‘A Monopoly on the Bomb Would Be a Catastrophe for the World’:
CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
“He did what Oppenheimer wouldn’t do…. And the result was that we have not seen an atomic bomb used since Nagasaki.”
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.
Media Holocaust Revisionism After Canada’s Standing Ovation for an SS Vet
Media coverage of the Canadian Parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka has included egregious Holocaust revisionism.
Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre
“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
‘Poverty in America Has Strong Structural Roots That Some People Profit From’
“Most SNAP families have somebody who’s working; they just don’t make enough money.”
Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now.
Carol Anderson on History, Race and Democracy
It’s a good time to recall that we had a war in this country in which many people declared that they cared more about white supremacy.
