This week on CounterSpin: People around the world have been riveted by heartbreaking images of refugees fleeing Syria, as well as heartening ones of European citizens offering help and hospice. But if the pictures drive you to want to know more, don’t expect much help from US media, who are not that interested to get at the roots of the situation. We’ll talk about the Syrian refugee crisis with Raed Jarrar from the American Friends Service Committee.
Also on the show: Internet activists fighting for net neutrality declared victory in February when the FCC ruled to consider broadband a public utility. So why are we now seeing op-eds declaring net neutrality in jeopardy? It seems confusing, and maybe that’s the idea. We’ll find out what’s going on from Tim Karr of the group Free Press.
And our usual look back at recent press–including cluster bombs, a flawed immigration study and a conflict of interest involving Comcast.