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

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  1. Death Penalty Coverage, Domestic Violence Justice

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261016.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). “Electrocution,” George Bellows (1917) Donald Trump has apparently called off plans to livestream an execution. It’s impossible to imagine that...

  2. Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261009.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Fortune (9/13/26) This week on CounterSpin: When Fortune magazine is telling you “corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are...

  3. Sarah Anderson on the Letelier/Moffitt Murders

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261002.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Institute for Policy Studies This week on CounterSpin: It may sound awkward, but there’s a reason that some of us refer to the lethal attacks on...

  4. Raina Lipsitz on DSA Politics

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260925.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Verso Books (2022) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media sell a lot of messages, but perhaps the overarching one is: This is how it is. You...

  5. Russell Mokhiber on Covering Corporate Crime

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260918.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Corporate Crime Reporter (8/3/26) This week on CounterSpin: FAIR, the nonprofit collective that produces CounterSpin, had a T-shirt early on…

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  6. Wayne Barrett (2007) on Giuliani and 9/11, Maha Hilal (2023) on Innocent Until Proven Muslim

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260911.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). HarperCollins (2006) This week on CounterSpin: Some 3,000 people died when planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. One hundred...

  7. Samer Araabi on Dissent as ‘Terrorism’

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260904.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CCR (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: No humor intended: Listening to this show might make you a domestic terrorist. Yes, the Trump White…

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  8. Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260828.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New Republic (8/24/26) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws...

  9. Phyllis Bennis (2021), Matthew Hoh (2021) and Sonali Kolhatkar (2010) on Afghanistan

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260821.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (8/15/26) This week on CounterSpin: The US news media marked the anniversary of August 2021’s nominal withdrawal of US troops…

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  10. Jessica Gonzalez on Paramount Merger, Isabel MacDonald and Steve Rendall (2008) on Islamophobia

    https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260814.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Al Jazeera (8/12/26) This week on CounterSpin: It was not a shock when Donald Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount—owned…

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  11. Gina Plata-Nino & Crystal FitzSimons (2025) on Food Aid Cuts

    Claiming people working full-time jobs that don’t provide enough to feed their families are just grifters living high on your dime is a time-honored tactic.

  12. Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers

    Obstacles to voting don’t have to be valid to have impact. And it isn’t just Trump’s lies, that media keep repeating, even as they call them lies.

  13. Dorothee Benz on Prairieland Protest Case

    Are you upset about ICE agents using your tax dollars to detain and deport people because they have a quota to fill? Well, my friend, you might be a terrorist.

  14. Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders

    The focus seems heavy on the notion that we need to "humanize" the victims of racist state violence, rather than challenge the humanity of those who enact it.

  15. Phyllis Bennis on Iran War Costs

    People worry the war on Iran has pushed the Gaza genocide out of corporate media’s attention. But media outlets make their own choices about what to present.

  16. Mia Ives-Rublee on Disability Directive

    Corporate news reporters whistle past a Trump administration directive advising states to ignore policies that integrate disabled people into communities.

  17. Seth Stern on Criminalizing Dissent

    Do you disagree with anything that the Trump administration is doing? Do you think you should use your voice to say something? Well, you might be a terrorist!

  18. Dean Baker on the AI Bubble

    Is there an AI bubble? How would we know? A new project engages questions, not just about price-to-earnings ratios, but about the predictable impacts.

  19. Silky Shah on ICE Detention, Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall Reporting

    We’ll have a conversation about what’s happening at Delaney Hall, ICE's New Jersey detention center, and the bigger systems and structures in back of it.

  20. Melissa Garriga on Data Centers

    Data centers are very much brick and mortar—despite press coverage that suggests that artificial intelligence all happens in the ether somewhere.

  21. Annelle Sheline on Iran War Questions

    Why is the US at war with Iran? What is the hoped-for outcome? Who is hoping for it? And what of the millions who got something they didn’t hope for?

  22. Karma Chávez on Academic Freedom, Alex Main on War on Cuba?

    While students and teachers think higher education means engagement with a range of perspectives, right-wing politicians say "not so fast."

  23. Jules Boykoff on World Cup and ‘Sportswashing’

    Sports has always been a big part of news media, but typically segregated into its own section on stats and personalities, ignoring the economic, social and environmental impacts sports have always had.

  24. Angelo Carusone on Media Matters v. FTC, Rachel K. Jones (2023) on Mifepristone

    Media Matters' victory over Elon Musk and the FTC is not just hopeful but instructive, offering what the group calls a “roadmap” for other organizations.

  25. Derek Kravitz on Dynamic Pricing

    While some states look into banning it, so-called algorithmic or "dynamic" pricing is being presented by the corporate press as a fait accompli.

  26. Jesse Rabinowitz on Harassing the Unhoused, Maritza Perez Medina on Rescheduling Marijuana

    How hard is it to understand the difference between charging poor people monetary fines they obviously can’t pay, and addressing homelessness with housing?

  27. Sarah Anderson on Poverty Wages, Lia Holland on the Wayback Machine

    Why do news media label companies “successful” when that success stems from cheating and grifting and, crucially, shafting their workers?

  28. Sina Toossi on War on Iran, Chip Gibbons on Impeaching Trump

    Trump's particular hatefulness pulls on pre-existing threads, making use of old narratives that have proven useful before and left unexamined.

  29. Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day

    The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” LGBTQ young people violates healthcare workers’ rights.

  30. Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week

    Sunshine Week is meant to be both a celebration and a call to arms to anyone seeking to bring the actions of the powerful to light.

  31. Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. 1st Amendment, Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Justice

    If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with democracy.

  32. A History of Iran Propaganda

    CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.

  33. Gregory Shupak on the US War on Iran

    It’s hard to parse US corporate news coverage of the attacks on Iran if you aren’t willing to let go of the idea that might does not, in fact, make right.

  34. Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month?

    In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”

  35. Reed Lindsay on the War on Cuba

    The Trump White House is openly trying to harm the Cuban people, and US media are openly trying to sell that to us as something to root for.

  36. Ari Berman on Attacks on Voting

    Some media still present changes to the electoral process that would make it harder for millions of people to vote as a matter of "election integrity."

  37. Rayan El Amine on Voices From Gaza

    The voices of Palestinians themselves are an intervention into a media conversation that presents Palestinians as subjects more often than as actors.

  38. Jenna Ruddock on DHS Domestic Surveillance

    People who never called themselves "political" are moving out of their comfort zone to register their opposition to violent, state-sanctioned power.

  39. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad on State of the Dream 2026

    The elite press corps that now pretend they honor Martin Luther King show that they never understood him—or those who share his vision today.

  40. Setareh Ghandehari on ICE Violence, Jon Schleuss on Pittsburgh Paper Shutdown

    The Department of Homeland Security wants us all to think “immigration equals crime.” What happens if we do that? What would happen if we didn’t?

  41. Michelle Ellner on Venezuela Invasion

    Trump will simply declare that anyone who asks for justification is a terrorist. And news media will report that as one side of a two-sided argument.

  42. Best of CounterSpin 2025

    We call it the “best of,” but these are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.

  43. Kimberle Crenshaw on Anti-Blackness

    US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.

  44. Derek Seidman on Starbucks Strike, Mitch Jones on AI vs. Environment

    Even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the Starbucks strike “drags” into a second month, “global support grows.”

  45. Judd Legum and Adam Johnson on Gambling on the News

    We’re learning about the deal just struck by “news” outlets CNN and CNBC with the “prediction market operator” Kalshi Inc.

  46. Alex Main on Honduran Election

    As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.

  47. Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives

    Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.

  48. Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding

    What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?

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

    Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.

  50. Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger

    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.

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