Best Senko Podcasts (2024)

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Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad 29:58

9h ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Springfield, Ohio, schools are facing bomb threats because some people believe that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating dogs and cats. According to candidates for the country’s highest offices, and the KKK flyers showing up around town, this means that these legal immigrants should be pushed out of the country — or,…

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EP 24 The Art of Discernment With Anya Katsevman 1:01:37

5h ago1:01:37

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In this episode, Anya and I engage in a spirited conversation about our experiences at The New York International Salsa Congress. We delve into personal growth through dance, explore the dynamic between trendy and timeless elements, and share invaluable advice from Anya Katsevman—a renowned trainer of champions. Our sponsor for this episode is Worl…

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Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide / Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules 29:58

4d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Corporate U.S. news media continue to report things like Israel’s recent strike on the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 19 people in an area designated a “refuge” for Palestinians, and to include warnings of a possible wider war in the region. But there’s little sense of urgency, of something horrible happening that U.S. …

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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy 29:58

8d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Corporate economic news can be so abstract that it’s disinforming even when it’s true. The big idea is that there’s something called “the U.S. economy” that can be doing well or poorly, which obscures the reality that we are differently situated, and good news for the stock market, say, may mean nothing, or worse, for me. …

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Freddy Brewster on Kroger-Albertsons merger 29:58

15d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The country’s largest and second-largest grocery store chains want to merge and, surprising no one, they claim that giving them that tremendous market power will lead to lower prices, better quality food, and better conditions for workers. The FTC says, hold on a second, how does that square with on-the-record statements t…

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Steve Macek on Dark Money 29:58

19d ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: One of many things wrong with corporate news media is the way they hammer home the idea that the current system is the only system. If you don’t see yourself and your interests reflected in either of the two dominant parties, the problem is you. On the other hand, independent media gives us new questions to ask. For exampl…

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Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest / Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies 29:59

26d ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is outpacing many scientists’ understanding of it, and it’s undeniably driving many harms we are facing: extreme heat, extreme cold, devastating hurricanes and tornadoes. News media are giving up pretending that these extreme weather events are just weird and not provably driven by the continued use of f…

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Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly / Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal 29:58

1M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: You don’t hear the phrase “free market capitalism” so much anymore, but the idea still tacitly undergirds much of what you do hear about why products and services are the way they are. We all know about corruption and cronyism, but we still accept that the company that “wins” — “cornering the market” — does so because peop…

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Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires’ / Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Dog whistles are supposed to be silent except for those they’re intended to reach. But as listeners know, the right wing has gotten much more overt and loud about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy. We unpack the latest weaponized trope — the “DEI hire” — with anti-racism educator and author Ti…

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"Milk Duds" - J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy & The Weirdness of The New Right 1:03:31

1M ago1:03:31

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Episode Description In this episode of The Glitterpill Podcast, we dive deep into the misconceptions and misrepresentations in JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy." Join us as we explore the rich cultural heritage of Appalachia, challenge the prevailing narratives, and discuss the broader socio-economic issues often overlooked. We'll also touch on the raw …

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Ari Berman on Minority Rule 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump said, on Fox & Friends in 2020, that if voting access were expanded, meaning easing of barriers to voting for disabled people, poor people, rural people, working people … if voting were made easier, Trump said, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Why wouldn’t news media label that st…

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SPECIAL EPISODE - Behind the Wheel: Billy's Little Poem 5:15

2M ago5:15

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In this special episode, we take a moment to celebrate Bill Manton (Billy), a cherished member of our company and our industry, through a heartfelt poem he composed. Strum by Mark Bury. Billy is known for his annual Christmas poems that capture the essence of his time in the industry. He created this special piece that needs to live life beyond Ard…

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Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians 29:58

2M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: In March, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.” But as Greg Shupak writes, even as evidence accumulates, denial is becoming socially and journalistically accept…

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Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering / Jane McAlevey on #MeToo and Labor 29:59

2M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on “record heat” — because the “records” will continue to be broken, and “heat” will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant. Media play a role in moving us from questions about where to buy a good air conditioner to what stands in the way of addressing a pu…

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Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ “Invisible Cage” 29:57

2M ago29:57

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This week on CounterSpin: The power of the algorithm is ever clearer in our lives, even if we don’t understand it. Algorithms don’t just guess at what you might like to buy: sometimes they’re determining whether you get a job, or keep it. Some 40 million people in the U.S. use online platforms to find work. The algorithms these platforms use create…

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David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage / Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Headlined “The Cash Monster Was Insatiable,” a 2022 New York Times piece reported insurance companies gaming Medicare Advantage, originally presented as a “low-cost” alternative to traditional Medicare. One company pressed doctors to add additional illnesses to the records of patients they hadn’t seen for weeks: Dig up eno…

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Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape / Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote dozens of pages justifying his decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, stating the Constitution does not confer the right to determine whether or when to give birth. None of those pages mention his intention to make the United States “a place of godliness,” or his belief that there can be no …

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Saru Jayaraman on Taxing Tipped Wages 29:58

3M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. Unfortunately, Trump can count on a general haziness in the public mind on the impact of “tipped wages,” more helpfully labeled subminimu…

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Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict / Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle 29:58

4M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Surprising no one, Donald Trump and his sycophants responded to his 34-count conviction on charges of lying in business records by claiming that the trial was “rigged,” the judge and jury corrupt, and that it was somehow Joe Biden’s doing. We’ll talk with Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, about press response to …

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Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge 29:58

4M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: In 2023, the California legislature passed legislation that said that big corporations doing business in the state have to tell the public how much pollution they’re emitting throughout their supply chain. But this past January, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups challenged those laws, claiming that mak…

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Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom 29:59

4M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: As an historic catastrophe, the deep and myriad impacts of Israel’s assault on Palestinians will not be fully understood until years from now, if then. That only adds urgency to present-day resistance to the collateral assault — on the ability to witness, to record, and to remember. When we spoke with historian Ellen Schre…

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Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency / Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors 29:58

4M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Steven Rosenfeld reports on election transparency, among other electoral issues, for Voting Booth. We hear from him about kinds of election interference we ignore at our peril. Some elite media-designated “smart people” have determined, “Citizens United, what? It’s folks who give ten bucks to a candidate that are really me…

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Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion 29:58

4M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: CNN’s Jake Tapper is mad about college students protesting their institutions’ and their government’s support for Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza — because they’re preventing him, by his account, from covering Israel’s horrific attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. Tapper and CNN, we’re to understand, are powe…

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Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Social Justice 29:58

5M ago29:58

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We’re now seeing the impacts of the reality that corporate media, as well as corporate-funded universities, will always side with official power — as they present students sitting quietly in tents in protest of genocide as violent terrorists. But in fact, we’ve been seeing it for decades, as corporate media spin narratives about people of color as …

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Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine / Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: Many college students appear to believe that learning about the world means not just gaining knowledge but acting on it. Campuses across the country — Rutgers, MIT, Ohio State, Boston University, Emerson, Tufts, and on and on — are erupting in protest over their institutions’ material support for Israel’s war on Palestinia…

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EP6: Behind The Wheel: Peeling back the Senko News & 39 Years with Billy (Bill Manton) 23:40

5M ago23:40

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In this episode of Behind The Wheel, Ardy Almassi, Bill Manton, Mick West, David Simon, and Mark Bury discuss the recent business news surrounding Senko. Get some insight into why and what’s next. We talk to industry stalwart Bill Manton and of course that means Car Talk had to be with Billy also. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.…

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Episode 22: The Brainwashing of my Dad with Jen Senko 1:20:27

5M ago1:20:27

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About This Episode In this insightful episode, Jen and I trace her father's complex journey through the rabbit hole pf conservative mass media and his eventual return. Guided by the profound insight that “we don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are”, we utilize theories as lenses to interpret and understand new phenomena. We also discu…

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Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit / Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuses of Iraqi detainees during the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia, with Al-Shimari v. CACI. Since the case was first filed in 2008, military contractor CACI has pushed some 20 times to have it dismissed. We got a reading on the case last year f…

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Underworld Journeys & Big Visions With Lovella Creative 47:26

5M ago47:26

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About This Episode Lovella has been a friend for many years. As a graphic and web designer, she has this remarkable ability to transform your concept into this fully fleshed-out vision for your website. In this episode, we talk about how we got into our work, the creative process, ways to overcome imposter syndrome through perspective-taking, and t…

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Chris Bernadel on Haiti 29:58

5M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: U.S. corporate media’s story about Haiti is familiar. Haiti, according to various recent reports, has “whipped from one calamity to another.” The country is a “cataclysm of hunger and terror,” “teetering on the brink of collapse,” “spiraling deeper into chaos” or else “descending into gang-fueled anarchistic chaos.” It’s “…

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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation / Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone 29:58

6M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: In the final quarter of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion. As reported by Popular Information, corporate profit margins were at a level not seen since the 1950s, as increases in prices have outpaced increases in costs. Capitalism 101 says this shouldn’t happen, because competing co…

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Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution / Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal 29:58

6M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: A senior UN human rights official told the BBC that there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war, which is a war crime. Meanwhile, US citizens struggle to make sense of White House policy that seems to call for getting aid to Palestinians while pursuing a course of action that make…

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Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage / Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts 29:59

6M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption is the prime mover of a cascade of interrelated crises. We’re told that, when it comes to problems people need solved, rule number 1 is “follow the money.” Yet even as elite media talk about the climate crisis, they still … can’t … quite …connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder me…

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Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair / Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction 29:59

6M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: About this time seven years ago, John Deere was arguing, with a straight face, that farmers shouldn’t really “own” their tractors, because if they had access to the software involved, they might pirate Taylor Swift music. Things have changed since then, though industry still gets up and goes to court to say that even thoug…

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Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection / Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders 4:41

7M ago4:41

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This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump, if he should become president again, could order the Department of Justice to drop any charges against him stemming from his fomenting of an insurrection aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election. That’s just been enabled by the Supreme Court, which put off until April the legal case wherein Trump…

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The Next Generation of Female Scholars: A Conversation With Kristine Bell 1:11:06

6M ago1:11:06

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Protecting democracy comes with elevating the status of women. In this episode, Samantha Kutner sits down with Kristine Bell, a Fulbright scholar and extremism researcher driven by her love for history and curiosity about national identity. Samantha with her knowledge of the industry and subject matter expertise fosters an open discussion, stimulat…

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Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism 15:37

7M ago15:37

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This week on CounterSpin: Years ago, when media critics called attention to ways corporate media’s profit-driven nature negatively impacts the news, many would respond, “But what about the internet?” Nowadays, more people understand that constraints on a news outlet’s content have little to do with whether it’s on paper or online but on who owns it…

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Greg Shupak and Trita Parsi on the Assault on Gaza 29:58

7M ago29:58

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Every day the US falls more out of step with the world in its support for Israel’s violent assault on Gaza. As International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber said, US vetoes of ceasefires in the UN Security Council, after which thousands more were killed, mean the US is directly responsible for those deaths: “Complicity is a crime.” Many in the U…

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19. Twilight Zone Politics with Nina Jankowicz 1:13:25

7M ago1:13:25

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In this episode of The Glitterpill podcast, Nina Jankowicz, who has held prominent roles in both the US and UK's information resilience organizations, shares her unique insights. She discusses her journey, from her early years in a Polish-American community to her experiences in community theater. Furthermore, she sheds light on her exposure to key…

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Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights 29:58

7M ago29:58

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People with disabilities are meant to be grateful, excited even, for whatever access or accommodation is made available for them to participate in daily life. Often, it’s implied that any violation of the rights of disabled people is an individual matter, to be fought over in the courts, instead of something to be acknowledged and addressed societa…

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Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation 2:50

7M ago2:50

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This week on CounterSpin: The rate of inflation is down. Prices, though, are still high, and Americans are struggling to afford food, cars and housing. Speaking of people having trouble affording basic necessities, “cut up the credit cards” is the sort of advice that politicians and pundits dole out and that corporate news media presents as a respe…

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Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff 29:58

8M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court ruled that federal agents can remove the razor wire that Texas state officials have set up along parts of the US/Mexico border. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that ruling “allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America.” Elite news media, for their part, suggest…

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Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety / Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting 29:59

8M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. So it is with police brutality. The news media has moved on, yet 2023 saw killings by law enforcement up from the previous year, which was up from the year before that. More than 1,200 people were killed, roughly three people…

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Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide 29:58

8M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: US corporate news media’s initial response to Israel’s terror campaign against Palestinians, unleashed in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas, was characterized largely by legitimization, a rhetorical blank check for whatever Israel might do. Israel, the New York Times editorial board said, “is determined to break th…

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18. How To Be: Embracing the Glitterpill Community Theme for January 46:43

8M ago46:43

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[ ] Join Samantha and Ava as we dive into the exciting world of the revamped Glitter Pill community. Discover January's new offerings, including our book club, movie club, and well-being events. For our theme "How To Be," Ava drew inspiration from the obscure 2008 movie of the same name. Sam chose the book "Atomic Habits," which emphasizes forming …

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Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage; Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping 29:58

8M ago29:58

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This week on CounterSpin: The journalists at Yahoo Finance tell us that a Connecticut McDonald’s charging $18 for a combo meal has “sparked a nationwide debate” on escalating prices in the fast food industry. The outrage, readers are told, is “partly attributed” to a recent raise in the minimum wage — which has not yet gone into effect. From there,…

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Chip Gibbons on the Right to Protest 29:59

9M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: It was a big deal when Jewish Americans who oppose US support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza filled New York’s Grand Central Terminal. But not big enough to make the front page of the local paper, the New York Times. US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks using…

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Best of CounterSpin 2023 29:58

9M ago29:58

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Every week, CounterSpin presents a look “behind the headlines” of the mainstream news. Not because headlines are false, necessarily, but because the full story is rarely reflected there. Many — most — conversations we need to have, must happen around corporate news media, while deconstructing and re-imagining the discourse they’re pumping out, day …

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Wadie Said on the New McCarthyism 29:57

9M ago29:57

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People in the U.S., the story goes, value few things more than individual freedom and money. So you’d think the way an individual uses their money would be sacrosanct. A sign of where we’re at are currently congressional efforts to put people in prison, and fine them millions of dollars, for choosing not to buy products from countries that are not …

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Climate Disruption Filtered Through Corporate Media 29:59

9M ago29:59

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This week on CounterSpin: UN Climate talks have ended with an agreement that, as New York Times headlines would suggest, “Strikes a Deal to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels.” Headlines, which are all that many people read, are often misleading, and sometimes they aggressively deflect from the point of the story, which in this case is that everyone…

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