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FAIR, a national organization focused on monitoring the media, has been highlighting issues of media bias and censorship since 1986. Our mission is to strengthen the First Amendment by promoting a wider range of voices in the media and examining practices that overlook public interests, minority opinions, and dissenting views. As an organization against censorship, we bring attention to underreported stories and support journalists facing suppression. We advocate for progressive changes, believing that significant reforms are essential to dismantle the large media conglomerates, create independent public broadcasting, and encourage robust non-profit news sources.

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‘They’re Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals’: CounterSpin interview with Dara Lind on criminalizing immigrants

1 week ago | fair.org | Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson interviewed the American Immigration Council’s Dara Lind about the criminalization of immigrants for the April 11, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250411Lind.mp3Janine Jackson: US legal resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was swept up by ICE and sent to an infamously harsh prison in El Salvador.
Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel’s Murder of Paramedics

1 week ago | fair.org | Belen Fernandez

Israeli soldiers on March 23 massacred 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers near the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ongoing US-backed genocide has officially killed more than 50,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
‘This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment’: CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump's FCC

2 weeks ago | fair.org | Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson interviewed Free Press’s Jessica González about Trump’s FCC for the April 4, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404Gonzalez.mp3Janine Jackson: There are reasons that the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, is an opaque entity for many people.
‘The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses’: CounterSpin interview with Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and measles

2 weeks ago | fair.org | Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson interviewed the Vaccine Education Center’s Paul Offit about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and measles for the April 4, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250404Offit.mp3Janine Jackson: Trump-appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is colorful, which is a problem when someone is a public hazard.
The Resistance Will Not Be Televised

2 weeks ago | fair.org | Miranda Spencer

“Resistance is alive and well in the United States.”So declared the headline of a March 19 article on the nonprofit news site Waging Nonviolence. Authors Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam, political scientists at Harvard’s Crowd Counting Consortium, outlined how—despite a common belief that grassroots public resistance against the depredations of the Trump Administration is lacking or lukewarm—protests are actually rising dramatically.
The Real Scandal of Yemen Bombing Is Not That They Used the Wrong App

3 weeks ago | fair.org | Paul Hedreen

The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, are the de facto government in northwest Yemen. The group began as a religious movement among the Zaydis, an idiosyncratic branch of Shia Islam, before taking a political-military turn in the 2000s. , Ansar Allah has been a powerful faction in the country’s civil war, fighting against the Republic of Yemen, the weak but Saudi-backed internationally recognized government.
‘Momentum Is on the Side of the People Protesting on Behalf of Palestine’: CounterSpin interview with Michael Arria on Gaza pushback

3 weeks ago | fair.org | Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson interviewed Mondoweiss‘s Michael Arria about Gaza “Power & Pushback” for the March 28, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250328Arria.mp3Janine Jackson: Listeners may have heard about the violent attack by Israeli settlers on Hamdan Ballal, who had recently won an Academy Award for the documentary No Other Land.
Tufts Grad Student Targeted by DHS Wrote Suspiciously Pro-Humanity Op-Ed

3 weeks ago | fair.org | Ari Paul

The journalism world has been reeling from news that a BBC correspondent was deported from Turkey, after he was “covering the antigovernment protests in the country” and was “detained and labeled ‘a threat to public order’” (New York Times, 3/27/25).
Robert W. McChesney, a Scholar/Activist Who Fought for Media Democracy

4 weeks ago | fair.org | Jeff Cohen

Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a more democratic society. Bob passed away on Tuesday, March 24, at the age of 72. No one did more to analyze the negative and censorial impacts of our media and information systems being controlled by giant, amoral corporations. Bob was a scholar—the Gutgsell endowed professor of communications at University of Illinois—and a prolific author.
Israel Kills Palestinian Journalist Hossam Shabat as US Media Look Away

4 weeks ago | fair.org | Belen Fernandez

The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24. The deadly targeting of Shabat’s vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip was in fact Israel’s second journalist assassination for the day; hours earlier, Palestine Today reporter Mohammad Mansour was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in southern Gaza.