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January 06, 2023Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum PolicyThere's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."...more28minPlay
December 30, 2022Best of CounterSpin 2022CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection....more28minPlay
December 23, 2022Lisa Gilbert on the January 6 ReportThe Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing....more28minPlay
December 09, 2022Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare ActThose who want to eliminate the Indian Child Welfare Act are opposed by the reality that made the Act necessary in the first place....more28minPlay
December 07, 2022Media’s Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused PeopleThe New York Times parrots the implausible suggestion that cities cracking down on unsheltered people constitutes efforts to help them....more0minPlay
December 02, 2022Nelson Lichtenstein on UC Strike, Marjorie Cohn on Evangelicals’ Supreme Court LobbyingThe struggle for pay and dignity at the University of California is part of a bigger fight about whether educators are actual workers....more28minPlay
November 25, 2022Milton Allimadi on Media in AfricaThe African continent as a playing field for white people to test their theories, extract resources and stage proxy wars is time-tested....more28minPlay
November 19, 2022While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed ReadersBefore Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media....more0minPlay
November 18, 2022Brian Mier on Lula Election VictoryIt's hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil's change of direction....more28minPlay
November 12, 2022US Media Searched for Crisis at China Party CongressFor the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring. Instead, establishment outlets reverted to familiar narratives regarding China’s Covid mitigation strategy and tied these into renewed predictions of a long-prophesied economic disaster—one that would inevitably […]...more0minPlay