Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps. The post Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone appeared first on FAIR.

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime. The post Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal appeared first on FAIR.

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies. The post Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts appeared first on FAIR.

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks. The post Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction appeared first on FAIR.

Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling. The post Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders appeared first on FAIR.

If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses. The post Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism appeared first on FAIR.

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility. The post Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault appeared first on FAIR.

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.” The post Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights appeared first on FAIR.

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress. The post Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things appeared first on FAIR.

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation. The post Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation appeared first on FAIR.

What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing? The post Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff appeared first on FAIR.

The Washington Post sought to preempt DC voters by getting rid of Mayor Vincent Gray before he stood for reelection. The post WaPo Owes an Apology to the DC Mayor It Drove From Office appeared first on FAIR.

Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities. The post Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting appeared first on FAIR.

How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now? The post Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide appeared first on FAIR.

Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs. The post Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping appeared first on FAIR.

Corporate media’s single-minded obsession with inflation has left the public with an objectively inaccurate view of the economy. The post Media Obsession With Inflation Has Manufactured Discontent appeared first on FAIR.

US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government. The post Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest appeared first on FAIR.

CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly. The post Best of CounterSpin 2023 appeared first on FAIR.

Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it. The post Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism appeared first on FAIR.

We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies. The post Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media appeared first on FAIR.