CounterSpin

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

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Deborah Vagins on Gender Pay Gap, Nusrat Choudhury on the New COINTELPRO

Posted April 12, 201900:28:00

When the subject is the fact that women continue to be paid less than men for the same work—and women of color still less—such a lot of the conversation...

Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’

Posted April 11, 2019

The “dictator” label is also a powerful cue, used by media to prime the reader to see a particular country or leader a certain way.

Shireen Razack and Tawal Panyacosit Jr. on Inclusion in TV Writing

Posted April 5, 201900:28:00

Year after year, we see people with disabilities, people of color, women and LGBTQ people un- and underrepresented in the rooms where ideas are generated....

‘A Lot of That Science They Point to Is Science They Paid For’

Posted April 3, 201900:14:16

"We're allowing these companies, a handful of very powerful companies, to really dominate the regulatory system, the political system, food policy matters,...

Carey Gillam on Monsanto Lawsuit

Posted March 29, 201900:28:00

How much power we will grant profit-driven corporations to determine not just what we're exposed to, but what we're permitted to know about it?