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...
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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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18 episodesSilky 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...
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...
Gregory Shupak on the US War on Iran
It’s hard to parse US corporate news coverage of the attacks on Iran if you aren’t willing to let go of the idea that might does not, in fac...
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.”
Reed Lindsay on the War on Cuba
The Trump White House is openly trying to harm the Cuban people, and US media are openly trying to sell that to us as something to root for.