CounterSpin

CounterSpin


Latest Episodes

Karen Dolan on Build Back Better, Tim Karr on Changing Facebook
October 29, 2021

  This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was “$3.5 trillion,” only 10% had any sense of what was in

Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron v. Steven Donziger
October 22, 2021

Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect.

Cherry-Picking Polls to Hide Public Support for Biden’s Spending Plan
October 15, 2021

Henry Olsen presented a red herring argument that ignored all the polls showing support for the reconciliation plan.

Bobby Lewis on One America News, Jean Su on People vs. Fossil Fuels
October 15, 2021

OAN's audience has been told that Trump really won the 2020 election and that chemical cocktails are better for Covid than vaccines.

Lisa Graves on the Fight for the Post Office, Stevana Sims on Defending Anti-Racist Education
October 08, 2021

Though the Postal Service has always been a public good, its current leaders seem intent on driving it into the ground.

Alec Karakatsanis on ‘Crime Surge’ Copaganda, Jane Manning on Gender-Based Crime
October 01, 2021

Media announce a rise in the murder rate with coverage steeped in false presumptions about what that means and how to respond.

David Moore on Manchin’s Conflict, Jim Naureckas on Covid and Media
September 24, 2021

"We’re going to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels."

Milton Allimadi on US Media’s Africa Reporting
September 17, 2021

Racist fables, omissions and hypocrisy have plagued US media's Africa reporting through history and up to today.

Marjorie Cohn on Texas Abortion Law, Kimberly Inez McGuire on Abortion Realities
September 10, 2021

The Supreme Court refused to address, which amounts to an endorsement, what is overwhelmingly understood as an unconstitutional Texas law.

Rick Claypool on OxyContin Bankruptcy, Dean Baker on Economic Disconnects
September 03, 2021

A bankruptcy ruling shields the Sackler family, profiteers on Oxycontin, responsible for, conservatively, half a million deaths by overdose.