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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
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CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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244
05 December 2025
Alex Main on Honduran Election
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251205.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CEPR (12/2/25)This week on CounterSpin: A militarized US Drug Enforcement Administration force declared they’d taken out drug traffickers in the Caribbean, killing some of them in what was sold as a successful operation. Locals on the ground...
27 min
28 November 2025
Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251128.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Opening ceremony for COP30 in Belem, Brazil (photo: Palácio do Planalto)This week on CounterSpin: US media didn’t exactly mince words: “Climate Summit Viewed as Flop by Many” was the headline the LA Times put on an AP report. The subhead...
27 min
21 November 2025
Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251121.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Foodtank (7/25)This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media have vilified people who use public assistance, and lied about why they need it, almost like it’s their job. Today is nothing new. But here’s a fun fact, as noted by Michael Klinski...
27 min
14 November 2025
Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251114.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CNN (11/11/25)This week on CounterSpin: The palace intrigue around the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, soft-launching the idea of a 50-year mortgage suggests the reveal was perhaps mistimed, but that doesn’t mean it’s not...
27 min
07 November 2025
Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251107.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Balls & Strikes (10/13/25)This week on CounterSpin: There is an argument evidently compelling to some: Yes, Black people have been enslaved and excluded and discriminated against for decades, such that today they are born in a hole in terms of...
27 min
31 October 2025
Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251031.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Union of Concerned Scientists (10/28/25)This week on CounterSpin: Responsible journalism would make clear that climate policy is not a backburner issue, just because many other terrible things are happening. Climate disruption is an active...
27 min
24 October 2025
Jeffrey Stein on Trump’s Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251024.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). AP (via WTTW, 9/10/25)This week on CounterSpin: Some outlets report that the White House’s designation of people in boats in the Caribbean, and now in the Pacific, as “drug smugglers,” therefore “unlawful combatants,” therefore targets in the “war...
27 min
17 October 2025
Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251017.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Drop Site (10/3/25)This week on CounterSpin: Trump and his enablers have a plan: to officially define anyone who opposes an agenda of white supremacy, imperialism, patriarchy—any dissenters—as “terrorists,” the “enemy within.” The question is no...
27 min
10 October 2025
Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251010.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Al Jazeera (10/7/25)This week on CounterSpin: In the immediate wake of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel in October 2023 that killed some 1,200 people, the Washington Post editorial board was warning that it was unacceptable to suggest that the...
27 min
26 September 2025
Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250926.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). MediaJustice (9/9/25)This week on CounterSpin: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports new rules from St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer about building data centers in the city, basically calling on builders to address their impact: “Will they support...
27 min