Counterspin

  This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to profit. There are finer points, but that’s reality. And it’s fair to measure journalism not by its cleverness, or by demonstrated […] The post Michael K. Dorsey on Climate Summit, Nekessa Opoti on Haitian Refugees appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was “$3.5 trillion,” only 10% had any sense of what was in it. That is many things, but preeminently a failure of news media—the demonstrably harmful effect of months of reporting […] The post Karen Dolan on Build Back Better, Tim Karr on Changing Facebook appeared first on FAIR.

Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect. The post Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron v. Steven Donziger appeared first on FAIR.

OAN's audience has been told that Trump really won the 2020 election and that chemical cocktails are better for Covid than vaccines. The post Bobby Lewis on One America News, Jean Su on People vs. Fossil Fuels appeared first on FAIR.

Though the Postal Service has always been a public good, its current leaders seem intent on driving it into the ground. The post Lisa Graves on the Fight for the Post Office, Stevana Sims on Defending Anti-Racist Education appeared first on FAIR.

Media announce a rise in the murder rate with coverage steeped in false presumptions about what that means and how to respond. The post Alec Karakatsanis on ‘Crime Surge’ Copaganda, Jane Manning on Gender-Based Crime appeared first on FAIR.

"We’re going to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels." The post David Moore on Manchin’s Conflict, Jim Naureckas on Covid and Media appeared first on FAIR.

Racist fables, omissions and hypocrisy have plagued US media's Africa reporting through history and up to today. The post Milton Allimadi on US Media’s Africa Reporting appeared first on FAIR.

The Supreme Court refused to address, which amounts to an endorsement, what is overwhelmingly understood as an unconstitutional Texas law. The post Marjorie Cohn on Texas Abortion Law, Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities appeared first on FAIR.

A bankruptcy ruling shields the Sackler family, profiteers on Oxycontin, responsible for, conservatively, half a million deaths by overdose. The post Rick Claypool on OxyContin Bankruptcy, Dean Baker on Economic Disconnects appeared first on FAIR.

Some US media are now lauding Jim Loewen, but without ceasing to generate the very sort of misty misinformation he fought against. The post James Loewen on Lies Historians Tell Us appeared first on FAIR.

US media consumers may need not a broom but a shovel to deal with the self-aggrandizing, history-erasing misinformation headed our way. The post Phyllis Bennis and Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan Withdrawal appeared first on FAIR.

Listeners to this show may take it as a given that, if you care about social, racial, economic justice, you have to also care about media—because corporate news media promote narratives that shape public opinion, public policy and all of our lives. The post Jeff Cohen on FAIR’s Beginnings appeared first on FAIR.

The hardships facing Cubans—and the actions the United States could take to stop contributing to those hardships. The post James Early on Cuban Embargo, David Cooper on ‘We All Quit’ appeared first on FAIR.

Media have misinformed the public about a campaign whose own architects say is about disinforming, confusing and inflaming people. The post Luke Harris on Critical Race Theory, Cindy Cohn on Pegasus Spyware appeared first on FAIR.

Media's prescription of law enforcement as the primary response is called by many Asian Americans a problem presenting itself as a solution, The post Bianca Nozaki-Nasser on Anti-Asian Bias appeared first on FAIR.

The long history of the US using state force to kill Haitians and their aspirations is sufficient and appropriate context for current events. The post Chris Bernadel on Haitian Assassination, Michael Carome on FDA Alzheimer’s Investigation appeared first on FAIR.

Nestle's profitability relies on a chocolate supply chain that includes literal slave labor in the Ivory Coast. The post William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld appeared first on FAIR.

How do we protect our society from campaigns to stop people from voting or speaking or going into the street to protest things that are wrong? The post Vera Eidelman on Fourth of July Freedoms, Vivek Shandas on Addressing Climate Change appeared first on FAIR.

The notion of real change after Donald Trump is undermined by a close look at Biden's actual immigration policy. The post Laura Carlsen on Biden’s Central America Policy, Greg LeRoy on Texas Corporate Subsidies appeared first on FAIR.