CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

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

262 Episodes

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.
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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?
Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health
9/5/2025
27:52
It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.
Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices
8/29/2025
27:53
You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.
Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
8/22/2025
27:52
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.

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CounterSpin

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

262 Episodes

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

Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health

Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices

Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism