Barack Obama described beheadings by the extremist group ISIS as "an assault on all humanity," but when US ally Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on January 2, many by beheading, the administration expressed "concern" and urged "restraint."

Selections from interviews from the year just gone that illustrate the practices and policies of elite news media that make it an unlikely arena for a full, vital debate on issues that matter.

From community rallies around the country to the presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement has changed the conversation. This week's CounterSpin revisits a few of our conversations on corporate media's role in issues of racial justice.

The San Bernardino killings have added fuel to an upsurge of Islamophobia in US media and politics that in some ways is worse than that seen in the wake of September 11, 2001.

The video that belied the official story of the police killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, along with an autopsy that also showed police's initial story to be false, eventually came to light through the work of journalists—but not mainstream journa...

If media's takeaway from the violent murders of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, by a man reportedly ranting about "baby parts," is that "both sides" need to tone down their rhetoric,

There's a movement to outlaw the "tipped wage" -- the idea that a minimum wage of $2.13 is OK, because waitstaff get enough in voluntary tips to make up for it.

The Paris attacks by the group known as ISIS have dominated news outlets, but if the goal really is to prevent the recurrence of such violence, then reporting that eliminates political context can't be the way forward.

Media usually present the minimum wage issue as workers vs. business, but we'll get a different angle from Holly Sklar of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage. Plus: What journalists can do about transparency and accountability in state government.

CounterSpin discusses the first presidential race in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. Plus: Just what do you sign away in those fine print contracts now necessary for everything from buying a cellphone to getting a job?