Oct
18
2013

Simone Campbell on Shutdown, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser on 'Where Is Your Plan B?'

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The government shutdown may be over, but there's no cause to celebrate for those hardest hit–-people already reeling from earlier austerity measures. Despite what you may have heard, the pain was not restricted to political 'losers' and those turned away from monuments. We'll hear from Sister Simone Campbell of the Catholic social justice lobby Network.

Also on the show: Plan B is not an abortion drug, not medically controversial, and since it can be taken 72 hours after sex it's not even a 'morning after' pill. A new project clears misconceptions around Plan B and tests whether it's actually as accessible as the law intends. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser of the Media Consortium will talk about that.

Oct
15
2013

Washington Post OKs Covering Your Spouse's PR Client

No conflict seen in Jerusalem reporter's husband representing Israel

The Washington Post responded to FAIR's Action Alert about the Post's Jerusalem bureau reporter, Ruth Eglash, whose husband's links to the Israeli government pose a major conflict of interest. But the paper's response--to the extent that it has any substance at all--seems to misconstrue what a conflict of interest is.

Oct
11
2013

Rebecca Vallas on 60 Minutes & Disability, Jeremy Scahill on War on Whistleblowers

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This week on CounterSpin: 60 Minutes joins the media crowd taking aim at disability benefits. What did they get wrong? We'll speak with disability advocate Rebecca Vallas.
Also on CounterSpin today: One of the speakers at a recent event on the state of U.S. journalism and its relationship to democracy was investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the book Blackwater and more recently, Dirty Wars, also a documentary film. We're going to hear part of Scahill's remarks that night.

Oct
04
2013

Imara Jones on Government Shutdown, Ryan Koronowski on IPCC Report

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This week on CounterSpin: The government shutdown has pundits lamenting the same old Beltway dysfunction. But who's actually to blame for the shutdown? And who's affected? We'll speak to Imara Jones from ColorLines.

Also on the show: The U.N.'s latest climate report is out, and its findings are alarming. According to the scientists, they are as certain that we are causing warming as they are that cigarettes cause cancer, and the problem is not getting any better. So why are some outlets reporting the IPCC's findings as good news? We'll talk to Ryan Koronowski of Climate Progress about what the report actually says.

Oct
01
2013

See--Spying Works!

Turning counter-terror tale into 'win' for NSA wiretapping

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When the government proclaimed the existence of a somewhat vague but extraordinarily dangerous new terrorist threat from a branch of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, it provided an opportunity to link NSA snooping to a War on Terror “success”—and many in the corporate media were all too happy to play along.

Oct
01
2013

Dreaming Away the Reality of Racism

Media misuse of Martin Luther King

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Corporate media’s engagement of Martin Luther King has long had an air of unreality about it, as the antiwar and anti-capitalist ideas that for him and others in the civil rights movement were integrally connected with racial equity are ignored or worse.

Sep
30
2013

NBC's Iran Bomb

Shocking nuclear news wasn't news at all

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NBC Nighly News reports that Iran is "suddenly" claiming it doesn't want nuclear weapons. But that's what they have been claiming--and NBC has been reporting-- for years.

Sep
27
2013

Trudy Lieberman on Obamacare, David Swanson on Obama's UN speech

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The centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act will launch October 1st, but do the millions of Americans who qualify for the insurance exchanges have any idea what they're facing? If they do, that's little thanks to media, who until lately have been underserving the consumer angle on this consumer story. We'll hear from health care journalist Trudy Lieberman of the Columbia Journalism Review.

Also on the program: To many in the corporate media, Barack Obama's UN General Assembly speech signaled a retreat from militarism. This interpretation seems largely based on Obama's softer, more diplomatic tone regarding US-Iran relations. But was diplomacy the gist of the president's UN speech? We'll talk to peace activist and author David Swanson about that.

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