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How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
Caution in reporting is valuable, but when it’s mainly deployed to protect the inflicters of state violence, you have to ask if it’s really a principle at all.
Dean Baker on the AI Bubble
Is there an AI bubble? How would we know? A new project engages questions, not just about price-to-earnings ratios, but about the predictable impacts.
NYT’s Advocate of ‘White Grievance’ Now Looks to Black Voters to Save Democrats From Socialism
The New York Times portrays proponents of socialism as “white elites,” while actual white elites dress up the defense of their wealth in blackface.
‘We’ve Been Seeing Immigrant Journalists on the Front Lines of This Story’: CounterSpin interview with Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall protests
“To provide the critical information that’s necessary to keep people safe, organizers and citizen journalists have assumed the role of journalists.”
‘Detention Has Become a Testing Ground for Authoritarianism’: CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on ICE detention
“The narrative has become about immigration being a public safety issue or a national security issue, when in fact immigration is about family relationships…. And it’s about seeking refuge.”
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FAIR Studies
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.
