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CounterSpin CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major news stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial.
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Jon O'Brien on contraception controversy, Richard Rothstein on segregation study Updated: 2012-02-10 05:00:00 Description: this week on CounterSpin: Another front has opened up in the long-running battle over the new health care law. As we hear the story in the media, Catholics are up in arms over being required to provide birth control, or something to that effect. Repu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vijay Prashad on Iran, Jeff Ballinger on Apple Updated: 2012-02-03 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: U.S. media are abuzz with stories about the growing threat Iran poses to the U.S. The stories seem to embellish recent remarks by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who says Iran is a larger threat th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Hastings on 'The Operators,' Laura Flanders on Gingrich and racism Updated: 2012-01-27 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: In the summer of 2010, Rolling Stone published an explosive story about the Afghan War. Within days U.S./NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal was out of a job. Much of the media coverage of the story focus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul Mutter on Syria, Richard Martinez on Arizona ethnic studies Updated: 2012-01-20 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The bloody conflict in Syria is, according to press accounts, bordering on a full-scale civil war. Much of what we're seeing in U.S.media comes from opposition sources seeking to topple the Assad dictatorship—leaving s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Jake Johnston on Haiti Updated: 2012-01-13 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: As a covert war against Iran seems to be intensifying, the U.S. media have looked like willing partners in an anti-Iran propaganda campaign, helping US officials project dishonest claims, rs. We'll speak with Cyrus Safdari o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Glenn Greenwald on NDAA, Corynne McSherry on SOPA Updated: 2012-01-06 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: President Obama's signing of a defense bill including authorization for the indefinite detention of terror suspects--including U.S. citizens-- has been condemned by leading civil liberties voices. But the outrage has been so...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Best of CounterSpin 2011 Updated: 2011-12-30 05:00:00 Description: This week we'll be bringing you just some of the highlights from the past year. We've had guests bringing us something other than the usual corporate media line on stories from the Arab Spring to trade policy, from Fukushima to Occupy Wall Street. We...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joe Torres on News for All the People, Amy Alexander on Uncovering Race Updated: 2011-12-23 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin, a special look at race and people of color in U.S. journalism. Told quickly it's a story about under representation and exclusion, of bias... and of breakthroughs. And all along, recognition that the stories news media tell ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jamilah King on the digital divide, John Knefel on OWS arrests Updated: 2011-12-16 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Few deny anymore that internet access is becoming critical to taking part in political and economic life. So, what does it matter that research shows that higher proportions of African Americans and Latinos than white people...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Dorsey on COP-17, Karl Grossman on Fukushima Updated: 2011-12-09 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The annual United Nations meeting on climate change is underway. That might be news to you if you rely on television for your information. These international conferences tend to produce stories that dwell on the lack of pro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt, Hannah Gurman on Fallujah Updated: 2011-12-02 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Egypt just finished its first round of elections since the uprising earlier this year by democratic activists. So why aren't the activists overjoyed? We'll talk about the state of democracy in Egypt and the way US corporate ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Charles Kurzman on 'Missing Martyrs,' Amy Goodman on arresting journalists Updated: 2011-11-25 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The coverage of the recent arrest of a would-be Muslim terrorist ready to carry out attacks here at home had a we've-been-here-before feel. Whatever questions might surround this particular case, most media consumers are by ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Julie Berebitsky on sexual harassment, Jim Horn on education Updated: 2011-11-18 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Sexual harassment has been in the news recently because of allegations that GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s. But what does the way media discuss sexual harassment tell us about how w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cyrus Safdari on Iran/IAEA, Frances Fox Piven on poverty Updated: 2011-11-11 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The International Atomic Energy Agency published its latest report on Iran on November 8th, but for nearly two weeks beforehand news media were rife with leak-based stories promising the report would be "game changing." What...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Costas Panayotakis on Greece, Nusrat Choudhury on FBI mapping Updated: 2011-11-04 05:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: This is how ABC anchor Diane Sawyer explained the Greek crisis: "The Dow down nearly 300 points, so, what changed? Well, blame it on the country of Greece, long criticized for being undisciplined and now threatening American...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Feffer on Africa & 'counter-terrorism,' Heidi Garrett-Peltier on job creation Updated: 2011-10-28 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: When Barack Obama ordered armed military advisors to central Africa to help regional officials fight the brutal Lord's Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony, few journalists asked why or why now. The fact that the LRA i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Todd Tucker on trade deals, Karuna Jaggar on Think Before You Pink Updated: 2011-10-21 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The congressional passage of so-called 'free trade' agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama was met with applause by many in the corporate media. The cheering was not only for the corporate friendly provisions of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Arun Gupta on Occupy Wall Street, Jasmin Ramsey on Iran plot Updated: 2011-10-14 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Did the corporate media turn on the Occupy Wall Street protests? When the protests started, the media story was a familiar one—the press ignored them, then derided activists for being leaderless, bongo pounding know-no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvey Wasserman on Solyndra, Diane Ravitch and Brian Jones on MisEducation Nation Updated: 2011-10-07 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The Solyndra scandal is the kind of story tailor made for Fox News: A green jobs creating solar power company receiving millions of dollars of taxpayer funds celebrated by the Obama White House... goes belly up. Much of the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Allison Kilkenny on Occupy Wall Street, Moshe Adler on U.S. Postal Service Updated: 2011-09-30 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Yes, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations aren't being covered much in the corporate media. But then when papers like the New York Times come down to take a look, one might wish they hadn't. We'll talk to Allison Kilkenny o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Neil deMause on poverty, Phyllis Bennis on Palestinian statehood Updated: 2011-09-23 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Census Bureau data showing one in six Americans live in poverty was received soberly by the press corps, but should it have surprised them? And what about next week, when the government doesn't release a report and people ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brandi Grissom on Texas death penalty, Tom Engelhardt on campaign coverage Updated: 2011-09-16 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: For a lot of people, the Republican debate on September 9 had one memorable moment: when Texas governor Rick Perry was asked about his state's death penalty record, the audience cheered wildly. Moderator Brian Williams wante...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Katie Galloway on 'Better This World,' Yousef Munayyer on Palmer Report Updated: 2011-09-09 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Two men were arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention and charged with a firebombing plot. For the FBI and headline writers, violent domestic terrorists had been thwarted before the act. The new film Better This W...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lorne Stockman on Keystone pipeline, Faiz Shakir on "Fear Inc." Updated: 2011-09-02 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Why have more than 700 people been arrested at the White House in recent days? Don't ask nightly news-- they've so far yet to find anything newsworthy in the largest environmental action in years: a massive protest against t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Faiza Patel on NYPD surveillance, Rena Steinzor on regulatory reforms Updated: 2011-08-26 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: An Associated Press report about how the New York City Police Department is working with the CIA to carry out domestic spying operations on minorities in cities across the U.S., is making some waves, and raising quest...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jim Hightower on Rick Perry, Glen Ford on Somalia Updated: 2011-08-19 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: 'Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be elected president of the United States, please pay attention.' That was late columnist Molly Ivins' advice near the end of the George W. Bush era. But lo and behold anot...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Karl Grossman & Steve Wing on Fukushima Updated: 2011-08-12 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Japan's Foreign Minister has told officials to stop claiming Japanese food is safe. This after beef contaminated by radiation from Fukushima’s No. 1 nuclear power plant was sold and consumed around the country. Meanwhi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Hartung on military cuts, Rania Khalek on taping the police Updated: 2011-08-05 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin. The debt ceiling has been lifted; that fixed everything, right? Well, the Democratic base is unhappy with the White House capitulation, the ratings agencies still aren't sure the United States has its fiscal house in order, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Devin Burghart on Norway terror, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Strauss-Kahn case Updated: 2011-07-29 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The US media narrative equating terrorism with Islam was on embarrassing display last week following the Norwegian terror attacks, a story which raised issues about right-wing extremism, and the links between violent speech ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mary Bottari on ALEC Exposed, Marjorie Cohn on prison hunger strike Updated: 2011-07-22 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: You've probably never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. So why do they have so much sway over the laws affecting your life? We may get some sunlight on the actions of this influential "publi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Galbraith on debt ceiling, John Nichols on Murdoch scandals Updated: 2011-07-15 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: The United States is hurtling toward fiscal catastrophe as the dramatic standoff persists between Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans on a deal to raise the debt ceiling... that's the story anyway. How much of this is...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Noam Chomsky on Arab Spring, Monica Novoa on Drop the I Word Updated: 2011-07-08 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Where things stand with the Arab Spring and drive for democracy in the region. U.S. interests have always been prioritized over human rights and democratic values; the people-powered uprisings have threatened the status quo ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Patrick Cockburn on Libya, Jordan Flaherty on New Orleans trial Updated: 2011-07-01 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: Congressional debate over the Libya War shows an apparently bipartisan sense of frustration and outrage over the NATO mission. This has triggered a serious debate over the legality of the war, among other things. But there i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susan Saladoff on Hot Coffee, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky on Battle for Brooklyn Updated: 2011-06-24 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin we're talking about two new films which, while journalism is not their central subject, directly engage news media's influence and real world impact as a critical part of the stories they tell. First up: You've heard the one...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shahid Buttar on civil liberties, Gareth Porter on Syed Saleem Shahzad Updated: 2011-06-17 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: An activist in Texas gets his FBI files—and finds out that agents have been tailing him for years. Activists in the Midwest are the targets of a wide-ranging investigation, including a half-dozen house raids and an arr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvey Wasserman on Fukushima; Andrew Fieldhouse on Bush tax cuts Updated: 2011-06-10 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: After a lull in reporting about the Japanese nuclear disaster comes news that officials there are admitting that radiation releases were much larger than previously claimed-- not a surprise to critics who saw those early cla...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jane Slaughter on NLRB-Boeing, Pamela Newkirk on black journalists Updated: 2011-06-03 04:00:00 Description: This week on CounterSpin: the National Labor Relations Board has told Boeing that they can’t move operations from Washington to South Carolina in order to avoid union organizing. It may seem straightforward that a company can’t retaliate ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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