Listen Live on KKFI
Every Tuesday at 6:30pmAbout the Show
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: It seems telling that when leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was slow to disavow the Ku Klux Klan, elite media called it a “stumble”—as though Trump had misspoken, had misrepresented himself or was truly confused about the existence of white supremacy and its role in political campaigns like his own.
Media talk a lot “around” issues of “race,” but generally fail to take the body of ideas known as white supremacy seriously in a journalistic way, even when it’s connected to violence. Terrorist acts associated with Islam are foregrounded over the right-wing kind, even though in this country it’s the latter that predominates. How do we inform and change the conversation?
Heidi Beirich is leader of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose work is the subject of a new docu-series called Hate in America. We speak with her this week on CounterSpin.
