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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: The New York Times is having trouble squaring its hire of climate change denialist Bret Stephens for a regular column with its current PR campaign branding the paper a bastion of rationality in a dangerously “alt-fact” moment. Stephens, a white man, like nine of the 12 current columnists, is also known for columns he wrote at the Wall Street Journal like “Haiti, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire: Who Cares?”—which argued that colonialism was “the best thing to happen” for some people. Is that what Times editorial page editor James Bennet meant when he said Stephens is a “beautiful writer” with a “deep sense of moral purpose”? FAIR editor Jim Naureckas will join us to talk about the sad sort of sense the Times‘ decision makes.
Also on the show: It’s easier to reduce climate disruption to a parlor game if you’re accustomed to ignoring the real people affected by the fact that decisions of vast, irreversible impact are left to profit-driven extractive industry. Chevron’s actions in Ecuador show how hard a company will work to pollute the conversation, along with the land and water—and what the stakes are for anyone who dares to stand up to them. We’ll hear the latest on that from Paul Paz y Miño, associate director of Amazon Watch.
