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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: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tipped a poorly hidden hand by saying that were it—you know—up to him, Congress, after the election, could be looking to “address” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which he called the “real drivers of the debt.” Media were quick to report Democrats’ outcry, but that reporting didn’t include any questioning of media’s own role in laying the groundwork for claims that Social Security is a “controversial” or “troubled” program in need of “addressing.” We’ll go over myths about Social Security, once more with feeling, with Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, board chair at the Pension Rights Center, and author of, among other titles, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of Jamal Khashoggi, gun regulation and trans redefinition.
