December 31, 2023

Best of CounterSpin 2023

29 minutes

Every week, CounterSpin presents a look “behind the headlines” of the mainstream news. Not because headlines are false, necessarily, but because the full story is rarely reflected there. Many — most — conversations we need to have, must happen around corporate news media, while deconstructing and re-imagining the discourse they’re pumping out, day after day.

Guests featured in this special “best of” episode include:

Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights, on air travel chaos;

Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, on Atlanta’s Cop City;

Eric Thurm, campaigns coordinator for the National Writers Union, on artificial intelligence;

Emily Sanders, editorial lead at the Center for Climate Integrity, on oil company lies;

Kehsi Iman Wilson, chief operating officer of New Disabled South, on the Americans With Disabilities Act;

Rodrigo Camarena, director of Justicia Lab, on wage theft;

Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines group, on Covid-19 price-gouging;

Phyllis Bennis, director of IPS’s New Internationalism project, on Gaza context;

Sonya Meyerson-Knox, communications director of Jewish Voice for Peace, on Jewish-American voices on Gaza.

CounterSpin is thankful to all of the activists, researchers, reporters, and advocates who appear on the show. They help us to see the world more clearly, while enlightening the role we can play in creating change. This is just a small selection of these valued guests.

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