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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: Some are wondering if the fatal shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino—along with a chart in the Washington Post showing that the year so far has included more mass shootings than days—might be the push corporate media need to stop covering gun control as a “culture war” issue on which “some say/others differ,” and move toward approaching it as an urgent public health concern.
A similar shift seems called for on abortion—which corporate media treat as, first and foremost, a “debate”—as though it can’t be the subject of straight reporting. But if media’s takeaway from the violent murders of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, by a man reportedly ranting about “baby parts,” is that “both sides” need to tone down their rhetoric, then women and women’s reproductive rights will be taking a step backward.
We’ll discuss the broader context for the Colorado Springs killings and how to move forward on reproductive justice with Jodi Jacobson, editor-in-chief of RH Reality Check.
And first, as usual, we’ll take a look back at the week’s press, including selective reporting on civilian deaths, Argentine elections and a forgotten massacre in Paris.
