FAIR

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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."