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Carbon Copy Editorials Against El-Sayed
It’s sad commentary on US media when two national newspapers, historically representing different poles of the American establishment, appear to share editorial writers. When it comes to the nomination of progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, the Washington Post (8/5/26) and Wall Street Journal (8/5/26) editorial boards practically plagiarized each other. It’s […]
Gina Plata-Nino & Crystal FitzSimons (2025) on Food Aid Cuts
Claiming people working full-time jobs that don’t provide enough to feed their families are just grifters living high on your dime is a time-honored tactic.
Press Opinion Treats US Devastation of Cuba as Reason for More Devastation
Pundits strive to justify US economic warfare: If the Cuban government can’t run the country, the logic goes, then the US is right to try and bring it down.
Fanning the Fauci Flames for Republicans
The right manages to be feverishly obsessed with the supposedly artificial release of the virus and also outraged by public health measures to contain it.
‘This Decision Is an Erasure of Black Political Power Unlike Anything We’ve Seen in Our Lifetimes’: CounterSpin interview with Vincent Southerland on Black voting barriers
“What Callais does is weaken…the entire framework of Section Two, and reduce the Voting Rights Act to little more than words on a paper.”
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FAIR Studies
Whose Voices Are Centered in Coverage of Cuban Crisis? A FAIR Study
The New York Times, Miami Herald and Associated Press each covered the Cuban crisis extensively, but the coverage varied dramatically across outlets.
Climate Coverage Plunges, Though Crisis More Dire Than Ever
The scientific consensus that we need to phase out fossil fuels fast has not changed, but coverage about climate change in US news outlets has plunged.
A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.
The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?
More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.
After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
Since Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3, 2025, US news outlets’ interest in the occupied territory has plummeted.
