Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers
Obstacles to voting don’t have to be valid to have impact. And it isn’t just Trump’s lies, that media keep repeating, even as they call them...
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CounterSpin
CounterSpin, FAIR’s weekly radio show, provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.
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20 of 24 episodesDorothee Benz on Prairieland Protest Case
Are you upset about ICE agents using your tax dollars to detain and deport people because they have a quota to fill? Well, my friend, you mi...
Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders
The focus seems heavy on the notion that we need to "humanize" the victims of racist state violence, rather than challenge the humanity of t...
Phyllis Bennis on Iran War Costs
People worry the war on Iran has pushed the Gaza genocide out of corporate media’s attention. But media outlets make their own choices about...
Mia Ives-Rublee on Disability Directive
Corporate news reporters whistle past a Trump administration directive advising states to ignore policies that integrate disabled people int...
Seth Stern on Criminalizing Dissent
Do you disagree with anything that the Trump administration is doing? Do you think you should use your voice to say something? Well, you mig...
Dean Baker on the AI Bubble
Is there an AI bubble? How would we know? A new project engages questions, not just about price-to-earnings ratios, but about the predictabl...
Silky Shah on ICE Detention, Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall Reporting
We’ll have a conversation about what’s happening at Delaney Hall, ICE's New Jersey detention center, and the bigger systems and structures i...
Melissa Garriga on Data Centers
Data centers are very much brick and mortar—despite press coverage that suggests that artificial intelligence all happens in the ether somew...
Annelle Sheline on Iran War Questions
Why is the US at war with Iran? What is the hoped-for outcome? Who is hoping for it? And what of the millions who got something they didn’t...
Karma Chávez on Academic Freedom, Alex Main on War on Cuba?
While students and teachers think higher education means engagement with a range of perspectives, right-wing politicians say "not so fast."
Jules Boykoff on World Cup and ‘Sportswashing’
Sports has always been a big part of news media, but typically segregated into its own section on stats and personalities, ignoring the econ...
Angelo Carusone on Media Matters v. FTC, Rachel K. Jones (2023) on Mifepristone
Media Matters' victory over Elon Musk and the FTC is not just hopeful but instructive, offering what the group calls a “roadmap” for other o...
Derek Kravitz on Dynamic Pricing
While some states look into banning it, so-called algorithmic or "dynamic" pricing is being presented by the corporate press as a fait accom...
Jesse Rabinowitz on Harassing the Unhoused, Maritza Perez Medina on Rescheduling Marijuana
How hard is it to understand the difference between charging poor people monetary fines they obviously can’t pay, and addressing homelessnes...
Sarah Anderson on Poverty Wages, Lia Holland on the Wayback Machine
Why do news media label companies “successful” when that success stems from cheating and grifting and, crucially, shafting their workers?
Sina Toossi on War on Iran, Chip Gibbons on Impeaching Trump
Trump's particular hatefulness pulls on pre-existing threads, making use of old narratives that have proven useful before and left unexamine...
Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day
The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” LGBTQ young people violates healthcare worke...
Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
Sunshine Week is meant to be both a celebration and a call to arms to anyone seeking to bring the actions of the powerful to light.
Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. 1st Amendment, Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Justice
If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with demo...