Janine Jackson

Raglan is set to come alive this weekend with a feast of foot stomping entertainment.

CounterSpin interview with Nicole Foy on immigration and labor

JH: I wanted to underscore that. I was thinking about how the corporate media, to me, bear such responsibility on both the issues of immigration

"The industry makes these promises that they can't keep. They're telling you that this will solve your issues, but it's not true."

CounterSpin interview with Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib verdict

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CounterSpin is your weekly look behind the headlines of the mainstream news. This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us—in part by showing how elite media are clouding them.

"It singles out a single app without really providing any justification why, and then they just say, 'Congress picked this one.'"

Remember January 2004, when Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean yelled in a pep talk to supporters after the Iowa caucus, and elite media declared that his “growling and defiant” “emotional outburst” was patent evidence of unacceptability? Having already declared Dean too excitable—“Yelling and hollering is not an endearing quality in the leader of the free world,” said the

Sometimes the headline says it all, as with the New York Times on January 17: “If Democrats Attack Trump’s Rich Pals as ‘Oligarchs,’ Will It Stick?”