Counterspin

In the way they balance worker health and company success, worker co-ops complicate corporate media's economic storyline. The post Jaisal Noor on Worker Co-Ops, Duncan Meisel on Fossil Fuel Greenwashing appeared first on FAIR.

Journalism has been central to public reckoning with the Tulsa massacre ever since that late May night 100 years ago. The post Joseph Torres on Media & Tulsa Massacre appeared first on FAIR.

US corporate media don't seem to see a story worth telling in India, beyond how Modi might hold on to power despite some unfortunate "missteps." The post Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi appeared first on FAIR.

Who's speaking for the actual majority of US citizens who support a person's right to determine whether and when to have a child?

Do elite media have space for people who don't want to risk their lives for less money than they need to live?

Where elite media present a frozen he said/she said, never-the-twain-shall-meet debate over Israel/Palestine, more and more people see a different way forward.

Tucker Carlson spews harmful nonsense like it's his job, which it is, and he gets some $10 million a year from it—but did you know that, if you have cable, you're paying into that income?

If the Chauvin verdict is testament to the power of protest, so too are the vigorous efforts to squelch that power. Plus: Right-wing legislators target trans kids at the state level.

While recognizing that it's not the sole source of inequality, there are things we can do about blatant, enduring and powerful unfairness in US tax policy.

Daniel Hale stands convicted of revealing things the US government didn't want known about its drone warfare programs—the ones elite media have often presented as precise in separating "bad guys" from "innocents."

If we don't learn from this pandemic that none of us can be healthy unless all of us are healthy, how many chances will we get?

Many are simply fed up with the idea that change is too hard. Will media conversation shift to keep up with them?

It's almost as if the corporate press accepted the existence of information haves and have-nots, because that's how goods get divided in this country—even if it doesn't make technological, economic or humanitarian sense.

Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole "one person one vote" thing is a legitimate topic for debate?

While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one "essential" yet somehow expendable group: Black women.

If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do a little more challenging themselves.

We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations--plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while it was happening.

Puzzling out what's behind the "more war will lead to peace" argument in Afghanistan--and listening to people in North and South Korea who seek an end to the militarized tension they've lived under for more than 70 years.

The disasters of climate disruption have next to no relationship to what corporate media say is "feasible" to address them.

For many women, overturning Roe v. Wade would not suddenly shut down access to abortion, simply because many women already lack that access.