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‘Actual Violence Against Muslims Can’t Help But Be Exacerbated by Islamophobes in Media’
“Journalists should use standards that would ensure that the public is getting information rather than hate.”
NYT Reduces Israel’s Arrest of Ro Khanna to a Politician’s Publicity Stunt
The tropes that deny, twist and mislead are being repeated in the New York Times’ rigid framing of its coverage about the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
‘The Facts Have Paramount Nervous’CounterSpin interview with Jessica Gonzalez on Paramount/Warner merger
“It’s about antitrust, and how much power, how many media outlets, can one person or one entity control?”
Phyllis Bennis (2021), Matthew Hoh (2021) and Sonali Kolhatkar (2010) on Afghanistan
CounterSpin has hosted numerous reporters, researchers and activists over the course of the decades of devastating US intervention in Afghanistan.
A Look at Arab and Persian Life in NYC Puts the Right in a Panic
Writing about dinner parties, get-togethers and lived experiences in the planet’s most diverse city is a problem for the right—if it’s about Arabs or Persians.
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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.
