Citations Needed | April 25, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-35-the-total-blackout-of-the-korean-left[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for joining us this week.Adam: Yeah, thanks so much for all the listenership and support we’re still going strong. Obviously it’s, it’s very helpful, if you can, to support us on Patreon to make the show sustainable and to, um, allow us to do transcripts and to have research assistants and to make the show more robust as we expand. We’ve also been doing a lot of News Briefs for Patreon, which are 15-to-30 minute segments that we do for our patrons. So helping us out on Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, we’re the one with the gold and black logo. That’s my shameless groveling.Nima: Yeah, no, that’s good.Adam: Nima always loves when I do that because I am super earnest.Nima: (Laughs) You’re very earnest. It’s true.Adam: Well, it does. All those things were true. It does actually...

Citations Needed | April 18, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you for joining us everyone this week. Of course you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and help us out via Patreon, become a supporter, a patron, a member, a joiner of Citations Needed, Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. That would be much appreciated.Adam: Yes, it would. So, on today’s episode we’re going to talk about a topic that we’ve touched on quite a bit, but never really focused on, which is what the hell is wrong with MSNBC? It’s a question we get a lot on social media, which is like, what’s their deal? Why do they suck so bad?Nima: Mhmm, yeah. What has happened with them?Adam: Right. So, MSNBC is by far the most influential media outlet on the American left. People watch cable news. It sets the...

Citations Needed | April 11, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-33-liberals-obsession-with-the-phantom-reasonable-republican[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you for joining us this week everybody. Of course you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod. Share us, like us, say nice things on Facebook at Citations Needed. You can of course help out the show, help us do more research about more of this wonderful content by supporting us through Patreon.com, Citations Needed Podcast, we’re the ones with the black and gold logo, says with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson right on there, can’t miss it.Adam: We will not do what the NPR does where we have, like, episodes dedicated to begging you where they’re like-Nima: No, we’ll just do that every episode.Adam: (Laughs) Yeah. Well a two-second beg is better than what NPR does where they were like, they do the little telethon and they’re like, ‘Oh, here’s Garrison Keillor to tell you a...