https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241227.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CounterSpin host Janine Jackson CounterSpin is your weekly look behind the headlines of the mainstream news. This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from th…

This week on CounterSpin: Writing for a DC court of appeals, Douglas Ginsburg said yes, banning the wildly popular platform TikTok does raise concerns about First Amendment freedoms; but it’s still good, because in pushing for the ban, the U.S. government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.” If that’s clear as mud…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241220.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Free Press (12/6/24) This week on CounterSpin: Writing for a DC court of appeals, Douglas Ginsburg said yes, banning the wildly popular platform TikTok does raise concerns about First Amendment fre…

This week on CounterSpin: The New York Times says that Amnesty International recently became “the first major international human rights organization to accuse Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.” That makes sense if you ignore the other human rights groups and international bodies that have said Israel’s actions in the wake of Hamas attacks o…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241213.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (12/5/24) This week on CounterSpin: The New York Times says that Amnesty International recently became “the first major international human rights organization to accuse Israel of ca…

This week on CounterSpin: Few corporations have changed the U.S. business and consumer model more than Amazon. So when that corporate behemoth buys one of the country’s national newspapers — it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be. But things as they are, reporting on Amazon has in general looked more like representing that conflict than con…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241206.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Progressive International (11/25/22) This week on CounterSpin: Few corporations have changed the US business and consumer model more than Amazon. So when that corporate behemoth buys one of the cou…

This week on CounterSpin: It wasn’t the horrific abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, but rather, the pictures of it that forced public and official acknowledgment. The Defense Department vehemently resisted the pictures’ release, with good reason. Yet when, after the initial round, Australian TV put out new images, Washington Post execut…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241129.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Intercept (11/12/24) This week on CounterSpin: It wasn’t the horrific abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, but the pictures of it, that forced public and official acknowledgement. The Def…

This week on CounterSpin: Passed by a whisker in Missouri on November 5, legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors — but how does it affect states, communities, people? Journalist Amos Barshad wrote in-depth on the question ahead of the election. He is senior enterprise reporter for the Lever and autho…

Has NZ fallen? Is it on the brink of a globalist created civil war? In this episode Hannah speaks with the Lone New Zealand flag bearer who was attacked by leftist Maori radicals and then police during a political march to parliament in protest of the Act Party’s Treaty Principles Bill. Citizen journalist John Ansell, who filmed the incident also j…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241122.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Lever (10/24/24) This week on CounterSpin: Passed by a whisker in Missouri on November 5, legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it af…

This week on CounterSpin: We revisit the conversation we had in August 2017 in the wake of the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Writer and podcaster Adam Johnson had thoughts about the way so-called “mainstream” news media responded to a straight-up celebration of white supremacy. If we’re to believe the chest-thumping, high on T…

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This week on CounterSpin: We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas. We also hear some of an important conversation we had with political scientist Dorothee Benz the day after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Plus Janine Ja…

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This week on CounterSpin: Reading the news today, you might not believe it, but there was a time, not long ago, in which it was acceptable to say out loud that immigration is a boon to this country, and immigrants should be welcomed and supported. Now, news media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate aroun…

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This week on CounterSpin: Dropped by her law firm after being exposed as an advisor on the post-2020 election call where Donald Trump told Georgia officials to “find” him some votes, Cleta Mitchell has leaned in on the brand of “election integrity.” Platformed on right-wing talk radio, she’s now saying that Democrats are “literally getting people t…

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241025.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Intercept (10/17/24) This week on CounterSpin: Dropped by her law firm—or, excuse me, resigning from her law firm—after being exposed as an advisor on the post–2020 election call where Donald Trump…

The official death toll in Gaza is now roughly 43,000 people, very conservatively. As the Lancet and others remind, armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence, including deaths from causes such as reproductive, communicable and non-communicable diseases. In Palestine, the death toll is exacerbated by disp…

Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

This week on CounterSpin: For many people and for media, the idea of “racial discrimination in housing” invokes an image of individual landlords refusing to rent or sell homes to black and brown people. But that understanding is so incomplete as to be harmful. A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affect…

A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

This week on CounterSpin: “How Hurricane Helene Could Impact Florida’s Home Insurance Crisis” was a recent Newsweek headline, on a story with a source saying smaller insurers were “especially in danger.” A layperson might wonder why events we pay insurance for should present a crisis for the industry we pay it to. Writer and historian Derek Seidman…

Why are events we pay insurance for a "crisis" for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Musk’s Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

This week on CounterSpin: On September 17, thousands of handheld pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was hundreds of walkie-talkies — part of an Israeli attack, intended for Hezbollah, that Israel’s defense minister called “the start of a new phase in the war.” Media dutifully reported the emerging toll of dead…

As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

In this video, William Bisset interviews eight key speakers from the NZDSOS (New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science) conference, including renowned experts Dr. Paul Marik and Professor Angus Dalgleish. The conference, titled "Empowering Change: Methods, Motivation, and Evidence," delves into critical issues surrounding medical freedom, trans…

Join William Bisset from The Brilin Wellness Support Centre as he interviews Dr. Fre, a dentist and co-founder of NZDSOS (New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science). In this eye-opening discussion, they explore critical questions about modern dental practices: Is there such a thing as too much dentistry? Could common procedures be linked to oth…

This week on CounterSpin: Springfield, Ohio schools are facing bomb threats because some people believe that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating dogs and cats. According to candidates for the country’s highest offices, and the KKK flyers showing up around town, this means that these legal immigrants should be pushed out of the country — or, …

Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.Par Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

This week on CounterSpin: Corporate U.S. news media continue to report things like Israel’s recent strike on the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 19 people in an area designated a “refuge” for Palestinians, and to include warnings of a possible wider war in the region. But there’s little sense of urgency, of something horrible happening that U.S. …