CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.

265 Episodes

Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
vor 2 Tagen
27:52
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media
11/14/2025
27:52
Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.
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Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
11/7/2025
27:52
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics
10/31/2025
27:52
News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.
Jeffrey Stein on Trump’s Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing
10/24/2025
27:52
Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.
Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
10/17/2025
27:52
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
10/10/2025
27:52
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.
Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy
9/26/2025
27:52
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance
9/19/2025
27:52
Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.
Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault
9/12/2025
27:52
Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?

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CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

265 Episodes

Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding

Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media

Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger

Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics

Jeffrey Stein on Trump’s Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing

Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data

Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial

Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy

Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance

Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault