Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.
‘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.
‘Millionaires, Corporations? They’re Not Going to H&R Block’:
CounterSpin interview with Portia Allen-Kyle on tax unfairness
“It’s these tax-lobbying corporations that have fought so hard to keep taxes complicated and confusing for the rest of us.”
Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021)
Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.
‘Because There Was Economic Insecurity, Immigrants Became an Easy Scapegoat’:
CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on the attack on immigrants
“Making conditions for people in the US better…is going to be an important part of our strategy to make the case for immigration.”
Media Hype Set Up Tren de Aragua to Serve as Trump’s New Bogeyman
Tren de Aragua hype fuels a general persecution of migrants by implying that migrant shelters are gang hotbeds.
Right-Wing Sleuths Find the LA Fires Culprit: Once Again, It’s Wokeness
Coverage of the LA fires demonstrates that in the Murdoch fantasyland, “wokeness” can be used to blame literally anything.
‘Media Institutions Have Played a Direct Role in Undermining Democracy’:
Transcript of The Best of CounterSpin 2024
“Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward.”
The Best of CounterSpin 2024
This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.
Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
White Men Get Short End of Stick—in NYT Chart, if Not in Reality
Not only are white men without college degrees not uniquely disadvantaged, they’re actually better paid than any other demographic without a college degree.
‘Housing Discrimination Is Collective, Cumulative, Continuing’:
CounterSpin interview with George Lipsitz on the impacts of housing discrimination
“A lot of housing discrimination is enacted through things that don’t overtly appear to be about race, and may not even directly appear to be about housing.”
For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination
A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.
Exposing Bias Against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Predictably Accused of Bias by CBS
Host Tony Dokoupil began the interview with an aggressive monologue that effectively dismissed Coates’ and his worldview, painting him as a radical not worth listening to.
Study: To US Papers, ‘Identity Politics’ Is Mostly a Way to Sneer at the Left
A FAIR study of US newspapers found the overwhelming majority of times the vague term “identity politics” was mentioned, it was referring to Democrats and the left.
‘We’re Hitting Record Highs, But Still Leaving African Americans in Economic Insecurity’:
CounterSpin interview with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Algernon Austin on the Black economy
“The future of the economy is based on how well minorities do in America.”
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy
A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
‘DEI Has Become the New N-Word’:
CounterSpin interview with Tim Wise on 'DEI hires'
“When you’re used to hegemony, pluralism begins to feel like oppression.”
