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‘Experimenting on People on the Night of Their Execution Can’t Be Right’: CounterSpin interviews with Dahlia Lithwick (2014) and Liliana Segura (2020) on the death penalty
“We used to hang people in the town square. It used to be that it wasn’t meant to be clinical. It was meant to be a gruesome public spectacle.”
‘We Have to Step Back and Look at How Tolerant We Are of Violence in Homes’: CounterSpin interviews with Soraya Chemaly (2016) and Jane Manning (2021) on domestic violence
“When the justice system refuses to act in cases of gender-based violence…they are effectively depriving us of safety and of the equal protection of the law.”
Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
Disinformation has been a key part of Israel’s US-supported war on Palestinians since before October 7, 2023, but it has been amped up since.
Don’t Pretend the ‘War on Drugs’ Has Anything to Do With Fighting Drugs
Media exposes reinforce the narrative that the US is in fact fighting against drug cartels—and not using the “drug war” apparatus as a politico-economic weapon.
Why We Should Be Skeptical of Generic Ballot Predictions
Generic ballot predictions over the past quarter of a century have sometimes wildly over-predicted, and sometimes wildly under-predicted, the winner.
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FAIR Studies
Western Media Accept Trump’s Plundering of Venezuelan Oil as Business as Usual
Objections to the new Venezuelan oil plan were mostly procedural and out of concern for appearances, not driven by any principled opposition to US predation.
Remembering 9/11—But Not the Victims of the US Response
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, leading US papers largely ignored the vast numbers of people killed in the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks.
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.
