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CounterSpin, the weekly radio program of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.

Podcast · By Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting · American English · Official site

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Sep 4, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 4, 2026

    NY Post Makes Up Horror Stories About Wealthy Fleeing Mamdani (opens the original)

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    The New York Post's claims about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax policies causing the wealthy to flee New York City fall apart upon even cursory examination.

  2. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed (opens the original)

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    Political cartoons on Michigan's 2026 US Senate race have been dominated by Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism directed at Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

  3. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    Corporate Media Worried Second Homes of ‘Blue-Collar’ Millionaires Might Be Taxed (opens the original)

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    Some corporate media conjured up a mass of working- and middle-class New Yorkers who would have to pay a surcharge on multi-milllion-dollar second homes.

  4. Episode · Aug 28, 2026

    Abolish ICE? Perish the Thought, Says Press (opens the original)

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    Recent articles argue that abolishing ICE will result in worse outcomes for immigrants, and even debating the idea makes Democrats more vulnerable to attacks.

  5. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Networks Were Ordered to Stop Filming Trump—and They Didn’t Protest the Illegal Censorship (opens the original)

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    "Cameras off the president now": The command was an astonishing call for press censorship on behalf of Trump and a direct violation of the First Amendment.

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