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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: The EPA has proposed new rules limiting carbon emissions, and the outcry from industry — lost jobs! higher energy costs! — were completely predictable. But people concerned about climate change aren’t exactly dancing in the aisles either. So are the new rules a bold step toward fighting climate change, or something much less? We’ll hear from Janet Redman of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Also this week: New York Times reporter James Risen faces incarceration for citing the reporter’s privilege to protect a source and refusing to testify in a criminal case against an ex-CIA employee. The Supreme Court refused to take his case on June 2 and effectively let stand a lower court ruling finding there is no such thing as a reporter’s privilege. We’ll talk to Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation about the ruling.
LINKS: -“EPA’s Carbon Rule Falls Short of Real Emissions Reduction,” by Janet Redman and Wenonah Hauter (IPS, 6/2/14) –Freedom of the Press Foundation
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