Citations Needed | July 25, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media[/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: You can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook, Citations Needed, support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support is so helpful. Helps us keep going and growing. And we’ve been doing it for now over a year. So your support really has brought us here and hopefully will continue. So thanks everyone for listening.Adam: Yeah, if you’ve thought about it but haven’t yet, please try to donate to Patreon. It does actually help. So Russia, as we all know, has sinister oligarchs whereas the United States we are told has philanthropists or job creators or industry titans who unlike the oligarchs, they got their wealth through moxie, hard work and dedication and pure merit. Whereas billionaires in other countries, whether it’s China or Russia or kind of batty countries, they got...

Citations Needed | July 18, 2018 | TranscriptJozef Mlot-Mroz carries a sign denouncing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Boston, MA on April 23, 1965. (AP Photo)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-44-russiagate-year-3-using-the-nonstop-specter-of-russia-to-smear-black-activists[/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. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is amazing, has been amazing. It has been a year that we’ve been doing it. I’m impressed by us, Adam.Adam: I think we’re pretty great. I agree. I’m on a new self help program about self affirmation, no.Nima: Yes, exactly. I’m good enough, smart enough and doggone it people listen to our podcast. So that’s good.Adam: So, um, we talked about in the last episode, this is the second part of a two-parter. If you haven’t listened to the prior episode, I suggest that you...

Citations Needed | July 11, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-43-russiagate-year-3-how-liberals-martial-posture-harms-the-left-part-1[/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. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, follow, like, share or get in touch through Facebook, Citations Needed. And of course you can support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is much appreciated and it helps show keep going.Adam: So, for over two years, the United States government has been investigating the Russian interference into the 2016 election that is broadly agreed by most official quarters to have been favorable to President Trump. And as a result of this, something really strange has happened, there’s been a flip in the traditional right center and left perspective about how we view our intelligence agencies, namely the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency where the left now holds up the FBI and the...

Citations Needed | February 14, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-27-how-the-media-mainstreamed-racist-pseudoscience[/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 everyone. You can find us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and of course you can always support the show through Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. And we thank you so much for it. It really helps us keep the show going, especially since we are going to be hopefully building the team out a little bit, as we mentioned on a previous episode. Any little bit helps. It is really great to get the support and also feedback from everyone, so thanks everyone. Keep that coming.Adam: So on today’s show we’re going to parse the two most popular racist crime tropes over the past 20 years. The first one is going to be Broken Windows and the second one is going to be a sort of...

Citations Needed | February 7, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-26-the-welfare-dog[/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: Like the show. Share the show. Talk to us, do whatever you do on Facebook at Citations Needed.Adam: Or go to our Twitter @CitationsPod.Nima: And of course you can help us out. You can support the show via Patreon, Citations Needed Podcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. Our names are right on there. It’s a lovely black and gold logo. Check it out, help us out. Keep the show going. We really appreciate all your help.Adam: So we haven’t touched on this in a long time. You and I are I know offline obsessed with the racialization of government spending in how these words and narratives get adopted, sort of brainlessly by the media. And one of those words is a word that we need to dissect because now in the past few weeks, especially after...

Citations Needed | January 24, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-24-highlighting-alternative-media-the-moral-limits-of-dunking-on-thomas-friedman[/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. You can follow us of course on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and of course you can always support the show via Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. You can find us through that platform, any help is obviously appreciated. The support we’ve gotten so far has been amazing and we can’t thank you all enough for helping us get this off the ground and keeping it going as you have. You know, it’s amazing Adam, we’ve been doing this for like six months now. Can you believe it?Adam: I know, we’re getting old.Nima: Yeah, it’s incredible.Adam: Our content’s fresh. We’re old. That’s the Citations Needed promise.Nima: (Laughs) Exactly. That’s our new tagline. But in addition with the New Year, we’re also going to be expanding our...