This week on CounterSpin: Media talk about “the economy” as though it were an abstraction, somehow clinically removed from daily life, instead of being ingrained & entwined in every minute of it. So white supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people. Our guest’s recent work names a simple, obvious way development incentives exacerbate racialized inequality: by transferring wealth from the public to companies led by white male executives. Arlene Martínez is deputy executive director and communications director at Good Jobs First, which has issued a trenchant new report.
Also on the show: CounterSpin listeners are well aware of the gutting of state and local journalism, connected to the corporate takeover of newspapers and their sell-off to venture—or, as some would say it, vulture—capitalists. Florín Nájera-Uresti is California campaign organizer for the advocacy group Free Press Action. We talk to her about better and worse ways to meet local news media needs.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Israel/Palestine and cluster bombs.
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Steve Macek on Dark Money
Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal
Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused
Ari Berman on Minority Rule
Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians
Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor
Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ ‘Invisible Cage’
David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage, Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity
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Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion
Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
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Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
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