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

CounterSpin

New York, NY


    • May 30, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • weekly NEW EPISODES
    • 23m AVG DURATION
    • 607 EPISODES

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    The CounterSpin podcast is an incredibly insightful and thought-provoking show that challenges the biases and shortcomings of mainstream media. Hosted by Janine Jackson, the podcast features interviews with experts and researchers who provide a fresh and intelligent perspective on various topics. The show stands out for its commitment to presenting well-researched information from scholars rather than relying on mere opinions or "opinion makers." Jackson's snarky and funny monologues add a touch of humor to the show, making it an engaging listen. The podcast consistently delivers excellent interviews, leaving listeners wanting more.

    While the CounterSpin podcast has many strengths, there are some areas that could be improved upon. One issue mentioned by a listener is that there are occasional difficulties with playing certain episodes, possibly due to encoding errors. It would be beneficial for the technical staff to thoroughly test each show file before uploading it to ensure a seamless listening experience for all listeners. Additionally, some reviewers have commented on the lack of logo or cover art for the podcast. It would be nice to see a visually appealing image accompanying each episode.

    In conclusion, the CounterSpin podcast is an essential listen for those seeking intelligent analysis and critique of media reporting. The show cuts through corporate media blather and focuses on important stories often overlooked or distorted by major media outlets. Janine Jackson's dedication to providing accurate information and her ability to engage qualified subject matter experts make this podcast stand out among others in its genre. With its raw approach and commitment to delivering valuable insights, CounterSpin provides a vital service in today's media landscape.



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    Latest episodes from CounterSpin

    Tom Morello on Music as Protest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 27:52


    Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.

    Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 27:52


    The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we're just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.

    With Friends in Media, Brazil’s Coffee Workers Don’t Need Enemies

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025


    The arguments advanced to justify banning coffee imports from Brazil to the US rely on outliers representing a tiny portion of the workforce, not the norm.

    Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 27:52


    Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.

    Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 27:59


    Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.

    Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 27:52


    The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.

    Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 27:52


    The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.

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    Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 27:52


    What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?

    Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and Measles, Jessica González on Trump’s FCC

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 27:52


    Kennedy's unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle.

    Michael Arria on Gaza Pushback

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 27:52


    Pretending protest isn't happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it's telling lies about who we are and what we can do.

    Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 27:52


    All that's in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.

    David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 27:52


    Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it's a community anyone can join at any moment.

    Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 27:52


    Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.

    Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 27:52


    Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.

    Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing, Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 27:52


    Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.

    Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 27:56


    Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.

    NYT Advises Trump to Kill More Venezuelans 

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025


    New York Times columnist Bret Stephens made an overt case for US military intervention to topple Venezuela's government.

    Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 27:52


    The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

    David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 27:52


    The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

    Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 27:52


    Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

    Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 27:52


    Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks' money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

    Dean Baker on China Trade Policy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 27:52


    How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

    Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 27:53


    Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

    The Best of CounterSpin 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 27:52


    This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

    Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 27:52


    Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

    Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 27:52


    While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty's report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn't.

    Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 27:52


    When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country's national newspapers, it's a conflict writ large as can or should be.

    Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2024 27:56


    A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”

    Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 27:52


    Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?

    Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 27:52


    If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

    Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 27:52


    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.

    Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 27:52


    News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.

    Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 27:52


    Trump's “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.

    Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 27:52


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

    George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 27:52


    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.

    Top Papers Quoted More Wine Importers Than Union Leaders on Port Strike

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024


    The more a strike affects the economy, i.e., the more effective it is, the harder corporate media try to smear workers as selfish and destructive.

    Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 27:52


    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.

    Vance Dossier Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024


    Musk's Twitter is keeping certain information out of the public view—information that just happens to damage the presidential ticket he supports.

    Mohamad Bazzi on Israeli Terror Attacks

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 27:52


    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.

    Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 27:52


    Jen Senko's film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.

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    Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide, Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 27:52


    Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they're going to say is, “oh well”?

    Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 27:52


    A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.

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    Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 27:52


    Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.

    NYT Can’t Forgive Donahue for Being Right on Iraq

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024


    More than 20 years after the New York Times was catastrophically wrong on the Iraq War, the paper cannot forgive anyone who was right.

    Steve Macek on Dark Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024 27:52


    How do we acknowledge the fact that many people's opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?

    Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 27:52


    The crickets you're hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That's all intentional. 

    Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 27:52


    Does the company that "corners the market" do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.

    Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 27:52


    The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”

    Ari Berman on Minority Rule

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 27:52


    If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."

    Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 27:52


    Years from now, we'll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.

    Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 27:52


    At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.

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