Counterspin

Many corporate news reporters seem unable to present a labor action as other than an unwonted interruption of a natural order. The post Eric Thurm on the Hollywood Writers’ Strike appeared first on FAIR.

Some officials fully intend to treat anyone who stands in opposition to whatever they decide they want to do as enemies of the state. The post Cody Bloomfield on Anti-Activist Terrorism Charges appeared first on FAIR.

Whether the Supreme Court gets away with its rejection of ethics depends in part on journalists' willingness to stick with the stories. The post Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Corruption appeared first on FAIR.

Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what's actually going on. The post Chris Lehmann on Debt Ceiling Myths, Kyle Wiens on Right to Repair’s Moment appeared first on FAIR.

Hate-fueled and hate-fueling media have political and historical impacts—and interpersonal, familial ones as well. The post Jen Senko on the Cost of Hate Talk appeared first on FAIR.

A Texas judge revoking FDA approval of mifepristone may be a "confusing legal battle" for media--but for most people, it's just frightening. The post Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone, Donna Murch on Rutgers Labor Action appeared first on FAIR.

Tax season leads some of us to ponder what we get in return for our resources—streets and stop signs, to be sure, but also wars.  The post Taxes: Who Pays and What For? appeared first on FAIR.

Crushing Starbucks workers' attempts to work together is against the law—but it's not the sort of crime elite media seem able to identify. The post Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks Organizing appeared first on FAIR.

Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy. The post Silky Shah on Detention Center Fire, Eagan Kemp on Medicare Advantage appeared first on FAIR.

What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying. The post Norman Solomon on the Iraq Invasion, 20 Years Later appeared first on FAIR.

The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames. The post Kamau Franklin on Cop City Protests appeared first on FAIR.

Media interest in historic breakthroughs should extend to the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policies could address them. The post Kim Knackstedt on Disability Policy, Algernon Austin on Unemployment & Race appeared first on FAIR.

Jackson, Mississippi, residents who have been harmed many times over are being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice. The post Makani Themba on Jackson Crisis appeared first on FAIR.

Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now. The post Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism appeared first on FAIR.

Saying how hard you want to be on "dealers" is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue. The post Maritza Perez Medina on Fentanyl, Nancy Altman on Social Security appeared first on FAIR.

What could be happening if Biden's long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through? The post Evan Greer on the Fight for the FCC appeared first on FAIR.

Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War. The post Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering appeared first on FAIR.

The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford. The post Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS appeared first on FAIR.

Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future. The post Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba appeared first on FAIR.

The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions. The post David Sirota on Accountability Journalism appeared first on FAIR.