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CounterSpin
Counterspin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. It's heard on more than 125 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.
This week on CounterSpin: When the state of Oklahoma screwed up the execution by lethal injection of death-row inmate Clayton Lockett, most of the attention went to the ghoulish spectacle of his protracted death. But there’s much more to the story of what led up to Lockett’s death. Dahlia Lithwick writes about courts and the law for Slate. She joins us to talk about that.
Also on the show: A new journalist survey from the University of Indiana suggests that in the age of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks, many journalists are becoming more reluctant to tell government and corporate secrets. Is this an effect the the US war on journalism and whistleblowers? We’ll talk with journalist David Sirota, who has written about all this for Pando Daily.
LINKS: –“When the Death Penalty Turns Into Torture,” by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate, 4/30/14)
–“Four in 10 Journalists Do Not Support Using ‘Confidential Business or Government Documents Without Authorization,” by David Sirota (Pando Daily, 5/7/14)
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