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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: As the Ebola fear-mongering seems to be letting up a little, one thing that hasn’t changed is media inattention to the xenopobia that has gone hand in hand with the panic, and any real exploration of issues of inequality and how they play out in treatment of the deadly disease. We’ll talk to medical ethicist and award-winning author Harriet Washington about Ebola.
Also this week: Polls show pretty clearly that the public isn’t enthusiastic about getting involved in more wars. To many elites, this is dangerous isolationism and a retreat from America’s rightful position as a superpower. Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives has taken a deep look at public opinion, and we talked with him about the problems with elite rhetoric about isolationism.
LINKS:
–“The Politics of the Ebola Serum – Harriet Washington on the Ebola Outbreak” (The Real News, 10/3/14)
–“Something in the Air: ‘Isolationism,’ Defense Spending, and the US Public Mood,” by Carl Conetta (Project on Defense Alternatives, 10/14)
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