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Hegseth Hoping His Media Minions Can Smooth His Way to the White House
Unable to change the realities on the ground, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking the next-best approach by trying to change the way the war is reported.
Russell Mokhiber on Covering Corporate Crime
Interrogating the role of profit-driven corporations in today’s journalism is crucial, but it’s part of questioning corporate power over our lives in general.
Boston Globe Praised Harvard for Suppressing Free Speech to Save It
How can speech restrictions by Harvard be hailed by the Boston Globe as “efforts to improve the climate for speech”? It comes from how it frames the problem.
‘This Counter-Terrorism Framework Situates People Outside of Rights’: CounterSpin interview with Samer Araabi on dissent as 'terrorism'
“With every passing administration, it just grows and grows. And that’s because, with this undefined threat, you can expand it however you want.”
9/11 Violated Thomas Friedman’s ‘Cocoon’—and Made Him a Cheerleader for the ‘War on Terror’
Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.
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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.
