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- 690 - Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 27min - 689 - Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 27min - 688 - Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 27min - 687 - Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 27min - 686 - Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 27min - 685 - Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 27min - 684 - Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 27min - 683 - Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 27min - 682 - Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting
Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 27min - 681 - Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide
How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 27min - 680 - Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping
Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 27min - 679 - Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest
US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.
Fri, 05 Jan 2024 - 27min - 678 - Best of CounterSpin 2023
CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly.
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 - 27min - 677 - Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism
Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 27min - 676 - Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media
We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 27min - 675 - Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace
The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 27min - 674 - Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics
Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician.
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 27min - 673 - Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Javier Milei
Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 27min - 672 - Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi
The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 27min - 671 - Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson
Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 27min - 670 - 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.”
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 - 27min - 669 - Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism
Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 - 27min - 668 - Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters
The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 - 27min - 667 - Phyllis Bennis on Gaza
This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 - 27min - 666 - Rodrigo Camarena on Wage Theft
Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.
Fri, 06 Oct 2023 - 27min - 665 - Stephen Zunes on Menendez Indictment
The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 - 27min - 664 - Lisa Xu on Auto Workers Strike
An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time.
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 - 28min - 663 - Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 - 27min - 662 - Amanda Yee on Korean Travel Ban, Hyun Lee on Korea History
Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms.
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 - 28min - 661 - Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch and Kevin Kumashiro on Education
It does no disservice to the education battles of the current day to connect them to previous battles and conversations.
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 - 27min - 660 - Kehsi Iman Wilson on Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about "how far we’ve come."
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 - 28min - 659 - Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Torture Lawsuit, Thomas Germain on Online History Destruction
Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven't been called to account.
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 27min - 658 - Shankar Narayan on Facial Misrecognition, Braxton Brewington on Student Debt Abolition
Facial recognition, a technology that has been proven wrong, has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now.
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 27min - 657 - Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters Agreement, Matthew Cunningham-Cook on GOP Climate Sabotage
Elite media are deeply accustomed to calling any union action a harm, and any company acknowledgment of workers’ value a concession.
Fri, 04 Aug 2023 - 27min - 656 - Melissa Crow on Asylum Restrictions, Dave Zirin on NYT’s Vanishing Sports Section
Advocates have long declared that Biden’s asylum restrictions are not just harmful but unlawful. And a federal judge has just agreed.
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 27min - 655 - Kevin Minofu on Say Her Name
Say Her Name is about adding Black women to our understanding of police violence—to help make our response more meaningful and impactful.
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 27min - 654 - Arlene Martínez on Corporate Subsidies, Florín Nájera-Uresti on Journalism Preservation
White supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people.
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 - 27min - 653 - Emily Sanders on How Not to Interview an Oil CEO, Kaufman & Bozuwa on Fighting Climate DisruptersFri, 07 Jul 2023 - 27min
- 652 - Taryn Abbassian and Others on Dobbs One Year Later
The impacts of the Dobbs ruling are still reverberating, as is the organized pushback that we can learn about and support.
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 - 27min - 651 - Nancy Altman on GOP Social Security Attack, Daniel Ellsberg Revisited
When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 27min - 650 - Sonali Kolhatkar on the Power of Narrative
Narrative is an important tool for folks looking to change the world for the better, in part by changing the stories we tell one another.
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 - 27min - 649 - Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Justice, Evan Greer on Kids Online Safety Act
What will the legalization, and profitizing, of marijuana mean for the people and communities most harmed by its criminalization?
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 - 28min - 648 - Jeff Chang & Jeannie Park on Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
Asian-American students are being used as the face of attempts to eliminate affirmative action or race-consciousness in college admissions.
Fri, 02 Jun 2023 - 28min - 647 - Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order.
Fri, 26 May 2023 - 27min - 646 - Cody Bloomfield on Anti-Activist Terrorism Charges
Some officials fully intend to treat anyone who stands in opposition to whatever they decide they want to do as enemies of the state.
Fri, 19 May 2023 - 27min - 645 - Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Corruption
Whether the Supreme Court gets away with its rejection of ethics depends in part on journalists' willingness to stick with the stories.
Fri, 12 May 2023 - 27min - 644 - Chris Lehmann on Debt Ceiling Myths, Kyle Wiens on Right to Repair’s Moment
Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what's actually going on.
Fri, 05 May 2023 - 27min - 643 - Jen Senko on the Cost of Hate Talk
Hate-fueled and hate-fueling media have political and historical impacts—and interpersonal, familial ones as well.
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 - 27min - 642 - Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone, Donna Murch on Rutgers Labor Action
A Texas judge revoking FDA approval of mifepristone may be a "confusing legal battle" for media--but for most people, it's just frightening.
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 - 27min - 641 - Taxes: Who Pays and What For?
Tax season leads some of us to ponder what we get in return for our resources—streets and stop signs, to be sure, but also wars.
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 - 27min - 640 - Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing
Crushing Starbucks workers' attempts to work together is against the law—but it's not the sort of crime elite media seem able to identify.
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 - 27min - 639 - Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage
Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy.
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 - 27min - 638 - Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later
What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying.
Fri, 24 Mar 2023 - 27min - 637 - Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests
The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames.
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 - 27min - 636 - Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race
Media interest in historic breakthroughs should extend to the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policies could address them.
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 - 27min - 635 - Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis
Jackson, Mississippi, residents who have been harmed many times over are being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice.
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 - 27min - 634 - 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.
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 - 27min - 633 - Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security
Saying how hard you want to be on "dealers" is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 - 27min - 632 - Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC
What could be happening if Biden's long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through?
Fri, 10 Feb 2023 - 27min - 631 - Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War.
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 - 27min - 630 - Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS
The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford.
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 - 27min - 629 - Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
Fri, 20 Jan 2023 - 27min - 628 - David Sirota on Accountability Journalism
The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 - 27min - 627 - Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy
There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 - 27min - 626 - Best of CounterSpin 2022
CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 - 27min - 625 - Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 Report
The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.
Fri, 23 Dec 2022 - 27min - 624 - Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act
Those who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place.
Fri, 09 Dec 2022 - 27min - 623 - Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court Lobbying
The struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers.
Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 27min - 622 - Milton Allimadi on Media in Africa
The African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 - 27min - 621 - Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory
It's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction.
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 - 27min - 620 - Gene Slater on Housing Crisis, Rakeen Mabud on Inflation Coverage
The affordable housing crisis is not just capitalism run amok, because that doesn't happen without government involvement.
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 - 27min - 619 - Jake Johnston on Haiti Intervention, Jeannie Park on Harvard Affirmative Action
US news media ignore the role US intervention has played throughout Haitian history in order to push for the same sort of intervention again.
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 - 27min - 618 - Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal Update
Overt, proud-of-it bias has shaped coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal's case from the outset, and current mentions suggest little has changed.
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 - 27min - 617 - Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms
Election coverage should be judged not by how reporters "treat" Democrats or Republicans, but about how they inform and engage the public.
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 - 27min - 616 - Ahmad Abuznaid on Israeli Human Rights Crackdown, Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency
Growing numbers of people have concerns, not just about uncritical US support for Israel, but also about the shutdown of critics.
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 - 27min - 615 - John Logan on Amazon & Starbucks Organizing
With tens of thousands of workers walking out around the country, the notion that this is somehow not meaningful should be hard to maintain.
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 - 27min - 614 - Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico Colonialism, Guerline Jozef on Haitian Refugee Abuse
Tax giveaways to non–Puerto Ricans mean money not going to Puerto Rico's energy systems, schools, hospitals, housing.
Fri, 30 Sep 2022 - 27min - 613 - Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations
US news media need to not only acknowledge inflicting racist harms, but take seriously the idea of repairing them.
Fri, 23 Sep 2022 - 27min - 612 - Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage
For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement.
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 - 27min - 611 - Matt Gertz and Eric K Ward on White ‘Replacement’ Theory
News media missed an opportunity to interrogate the media outlets and politicians who repeatedly invoke the white replacement idea.
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 - 27min - 610 - Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing
The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands.
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 - 27min - 609 - Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation
The corporate media narrative on Israel/Palestine makes it hard to make sense of the recent assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip.
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 - 27min - 608 - Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation
We have some questions about the US government's claim that this time, they're really bringing stability and security to Central America.
Fri, 19 Aug 2022 - 27min - 607 - Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War
Alex Jones' lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would "distract from the main issues." What are the "main issues" about Jones?
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 - 27min - 606 - Luke Harris and Joe Torres on America’s Racist Legacy
This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these ideas in various forms before; […]
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 - 27min - 605 - Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup
There's a way to tell the story of heat waves that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings.
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 - 27min - 604 - Nora Benavidez on Post-Roe Data Privacy, Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection
This week on CounterSpin: The internet has changed the way we communicate, access information and even organize, which means concerns about digital privacy are concerns about privacy, period. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, allowing for the criminalization of abortion, our ability to safely access information and health care […]
Fri, 22 Jul 2022 - 27min - 603 - Jessica Mason Pieklo on Abortion Rights, Preston Mitchum on Reproductive Justice
This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court’s reversal on abortion rights is so actually and potentially devastating that it’s hard to know where to look. It’s worth tracing things back—Katherine Stewart in the Guardian, among others, walks us through how, at a time when most Protestant Republicans, including the Southern Baptist Convention, hailed the liberalization […]
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 - 27min - 602 - Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters
A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents.
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 - 27min - 601 - Dave Zirin on Football Prayer Ruling, Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Social Change
This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.” The case was about whether there was a problem with a Washington […]
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 - 27min - 600 - Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon
It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on.
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 - 27min - 599 - Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall
It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating,
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 - 27min - 598 - Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid
There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines.
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 - 27min - 597 - Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence
While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there.
Fri, 03 Jun 2022 - 27min - 596 - Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC
This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life is […]
Fri, 27 May 2022 - 27min - 595 - Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’
The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people.
Fri, 20 May 2022 - 27min - 594 - Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage
Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football.
Fri, 13 May 2022 - 27min - 593 - Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News
A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it.
Fri, 06 May 2022 - 27min - 592 - Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing
"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time.
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 - 27min - 591 - Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy
Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show.
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