{"id":14315,"date":"2021-01-01T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9019201"},"modified":"2021-01-01T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:20:10","slug":"best-of-counterspin-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/01\/best-of-counterspin-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of CounterSpin 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_9019204\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9019204\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9019204\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MarinCity-Protest-BlackLivesMatter-GeorgeFloyd_438.jpg\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter protest, Marin City, California (photo: Daniel Arauz)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MarinCity-Protest-BlackLivesMatter-GeorgeFloyd_438.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MarinCity-Protest-BlackLivesMatter-GeorgeFloyd_438-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MarinCity-Protest-BlackLivesMatter-GeorgeFloyd_438-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MarinCity-Protest-BlackLivesMatter-GeorgeFloyd_438-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9019204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(photo: Daniel Arauz\/Wikimedia)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we start a new year, longtime <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong> listeners will know, we revisit a few of our weekly looks behind the headlines. We call it &#8220;the best of,&#8221; but it&#8217;s just a reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing. We&#8217;re thankful to <i>all<\/i> of the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us understand the world and how we can change it.<\/p>\n<p>The Best of CounterSpin 2020 includes excerpts from Janine Jackson&#8217;s conversations with Alex Lawson on Social Security, Chip Gibbons on protest, Greg Shupak on Qasem Soelimani&#8217;s assassination, Carol Anderson on voter suppression, Jim Naureckas on the pandemic, Alicia Bell on covering community, Maritiza Perez on drugs and police violence, and Ray Fuentes on the gig economy.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/best-of-counterspin-2020\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,338,422,259,1156,1157,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343046,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions\/1343046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}