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Media’s Hasan Piker Meltdown Is About Silencing Dissent
Hasan Piker’s growing popularity has everything to do with the bankrupt moral character of establishment Democrats and their allies in the media.
Forty Years of Raising Hell About Corporate Media Bias
I came up with the idea for FAIR in the mid-1980s, when corporate news outlets were on bended knee for a reactionary, declining, war-mongering president.
Silky Shah on ICE Detention, Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall Reporting
We’ll have a conversation about what’s happening at Delaney Hall, ICE’s New Jersey detention center, and the bigger systems and structures in back of it.
Western Media Normalize Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon by Viewing It Through Israel’s Eyes
In October 2024, one year into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and attendant assault on Lebanon, the Israeli army did a thing. It invited journalists from major Western corporate media outlets on an incursion into Lebanon’s ravaged south, accompanied by Israeli military personnel who would interpret the wreckage in Israel’s favor—not that […]
Why Do US Media Still Treat ADL as a Credible Source on Antisemitism?
In recent years, the Anti-Defamation League’s main focus has been smearing criticism of Israel or support for Palestinian human rights as Jew hatred.
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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.
Labeling Kidnapping a ‘Capture,’ Media Legitimate Violation of International Law
It’s misleading to use language like “capture” and “arrest,” which evoke the US upholding the law, to describe heavily armed US forces taking Maduro prisoner.
