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

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250103.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Sonali Kolhatkar and Laura Flanders on Laura Flanders and Friends (10/20/23) This week on CounterSpin: Among many other things,  2024 was a series of reminders that corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not, today or ever, do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism—that boldly speaks truth to power, that stands up for the societally voiceless, that provides space for the debates and discussions we need to move society forward—for those of us who believe that US society needs to change. New calendar years are symbolic, sure, but they can also offer a fresh start. Why not see 2025 as a much needed opportunity to acknowledge, support, create and grow independent journalism? We talk about that this week with two people who are and have been doing not just critical, dissident, uplifting journalism, but the thinking and advocating around why we need it: Sonali Kolhatkar, from Rising Up! With Sonali, and Laura Flanders from Laura Flanders and Friends. Transcript: ‘Right Beneath the Surface Is This Level of Fury at the Way Things Are, and a Willingness to Act’