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CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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250
03 April 2026
Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260403.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). USA Today (4/1/26)This week on CounterSpin: In Chiles vs. Salazar, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s law prohibiting health practitioners from employing the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” young people from their sexual...
27 min
27 March 2026
Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Good Jobs First (3/23/26)This week on CounterSpin: Sunshine Week, based on a popular statement from Louis Brandeis that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” is an effort to spotlight open government and its importance to the public’s right to know...
27 min
20 March 2026
Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. 1st Amendment, Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Justice
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Truth Social (3/14/26)This week on CounterSpin: Those not in vigorous denial understand that we in the US are in the midst of not just “foreign” wars—today on, most prominently, Iran—but also a war against our ability to talk about it all, to...
27 min
13 March 2026
A History of Iran Propaganda
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260313.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (3/10/26)This week on CounterSpin: House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Brian Mast declared of Iran: “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American both at home and abroad for the last 47 years”—leading...
27 min
06 March 2026
Gregory Shupak on the US War on Iran
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260306.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Column (3/4/26)This week on CounterSpin: As a radio producer, you get pitches; to paraphrase one we got this week:Dear Janine, the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iranian military targets and leaders this weekend. Iran’s Supreme...
27 min
27 February 2026
Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month?
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260227.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). American Prospect (2/23/26)This week on CounterSpin: US news media don’t show a serious interest in history generally, as you can see from many outlets’ pretense to offer “all you need to know” about current events in a matter of minutes.In the...
27 min
20 February 2026
Reed Lindsay on the War on Cuba
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260220.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Center for Independent DocumentaryThis week on CounterSpin: CNBC, a news outlet, brought viewers the news that Cuba has suspended its annual cigar festival. The postponement, if you wondered, “comes as the island nation’s Communist-run government...
27 min
13 February 2026
Ari Berman on Attacks on Voting
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260213.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Mother Jones (2/11/26)This week on CounterSpin: Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing for changes to the electoral process that would make it harder for millions of people to vote, and some media are still presenting it as a matter of...
27 min
06 February 2026
Rayan El Amine on Voices From Gaza
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260206.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). The Nation (2/3/26)This week on CounterSpin: “What do you call a ceasefire agreement under which people keep dying? That is the question the people of Gaza have been asking themselves for the past few months.”And it’s the question that kicks off a...
28 min
30 January 2026
Jenna Ruddock on DHS Domestic Surveillance
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260130.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Free Press (1/26/26)This week on CounterSpin: There are reports that people out in the street opposing ICE abductions of their neighbors are chanting, “We’re not cold, we’re not afraid. Minnesota made us brave.” Around the country, people who...
27 min