This week on CounterSpin: You can’t say elite US news media aren’t on the story of the federal indictment of Robert Menendez, Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But prosecutors circled for decades before charging him with an explosive new bribery plot.”Come again? If elite media’s takeaway from the Menendez indictment is that some people over-favor their friends and like gold bars—that’s a storyline that leads nowhere, calls nothing into question beyond the individual actors themselves. Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. We talk with him about what’s at stake in the Menendez indictment beyond Menendez’s “political fortunes.”Transcript: ‘Most Americans Really Do Feel Pretty Strongly About Human Rights’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of the FCC and the 1973 Chilean coup.