Counterspin

If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses. The post Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism appeared first on FAIR.

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility. The post Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault appeared first on FAIR.

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.” The post Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights appeared first on FAIR.

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation. The post Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation appeared first on FAIR.

What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing? The post Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff appeared first on FAIR.

Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities. The post Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting appeared first on FAIR.

How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now? The post Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide appeared first on FAIR.

Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs. The post Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping appeared first on FAIR.

US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government. The post Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest appeared first on FAIR.

CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly. The post Best of CounterSpin 2023 appeared first on FAIR.

Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it. The post Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism appeared first on FAIR.

We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies. The post Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media appeared first on FAIR.

The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today. The post Sonya Meyerson-Knox on Jewish Voice for Peace appeared first on FAIR.

Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician. The post Melissa Gira Grant on Abortion Rights & Politics appeared first on FAIR.

Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.” The post Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Javier Milei appeared first on FAIR.

The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future. The post Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi appeared first on FAIR.

Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency? The post Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson appeared first on FAIR.

“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” The post Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre appeared first on FAIR.

Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production. The post Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism appeared first on FAIR.

The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on. The post Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters appeared first on FAIR.