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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 Trump administration has announced rules further controlling the reproductive healthcare that women reliant on federally funded family planning programs can receive. Corporate media are reporting it as a story about abortion, but proponents of such measures would tell you their designs are much, much bigger. We’ll talk about this latest attack on women’s rights—and its context—with Kinsey Hasstedt, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute.
Also on the show: There’s nothing new about corporate media owners sacrificing the quality of journalism for profit, but it still feels like turning a new corner when a hometown paper like the Denver Post is taken over by a hedge fund that calls itself a specialist in making money off “distress.” We’ll hear about the protests at the Post and other papers owned by Alden Global Capital, from Corey Hutchins, journalist for the Colorado Independent and Columbia Journalism Review.
And Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press, including Facebook‘s dubious partnership and the Washington Post‘s definition of the “far left.”
