Citations Needed | September 26, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-51-how-the-west-wing-poisoned-a-generation-of-liberal-minds[/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 the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of the show, help us out through Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is so appreciated that way. It keeps the show moving along, makes it possible for us to keep the show going and to give you the content that you crave and no more so than, I think, today’s episode. Wouldn’t you say, Adam?Adam: Yes. Quite a bit of popular demand for this episode and I’ve been wanting to do it for very long time because, well, frankly I think it’s kind of funny and I think it’s actually one of those things that people sort of talk around but don’t talk a lot about specifically as we talk about on in the show often, you...

Citations Needed | September 19, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-50-anti-imperialism-and-msnbc-approved-socialism[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on 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 and of course you can help out the show financially, help us keep going, you can do that through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, through Patreon.com.Adam: That is Citations with an ‘s’ — remember not to give to the other one, which we still have beef with.Nima: (Laughs) And that we do not endorse.Adam: We do not endorse. So today we’re going to start by tackling something that is, I think is the subtext of a lot of conversations about what we talk about when we talk about the word ‘socialism’. Socialism is sort of back. It’s been back since Bernie Sanders ran for president in 2015 and ‘16 and did it quite well. And now there’s a recent resurgence in candidates who are running after the Democratic Socialist label and even major Democratic...

Citations Needed | September 12, 2018 | TranscriptSurrounded by all male lawmakers, George W. Bush signs legislation banning so-called “partial birth” abortions on November 5, 2003.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-49-shifting-media-representations-of-abortion-part-ii[/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 listening everyone. This is episode two of our second season. Thank you for joining us. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, like and share through Facebook Citations Needed, subscribe through iTunes, Stitcher, Libsyn, wherever you get your premium podcast content. Do that, that is always wonderfully helpful. Leave reviews. Say nice things. And you can certainly support the show, keep it going, keep it independent through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, that’s with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. It’s a black and gold logo. All your help is so much appreciated. We are now into season two and, uh, we’re gonna keep it going with this Part II on media representations and discussion around abortion.Adam: Yeah. So...

Citations Needed | September 5, 2018 | TranscriptKatherine Heigl and Seth Rogan in 2007’s ‘Knocked Up’ (Apatow Productions/Universal Pictures)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-48-shifting-media-representations-of-abortion-part-i[/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: Thanks for listening everyone. We are now in Season Two of Citations Needed. Very happy to be back. Happy September. I hope everyone’s summer was lovely. You can follow the show of course on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and all your help through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson is so appreciated. It has sustained us through our first season. So please do contribute to that. If you’ve been thinking about it, but haven’t done it up until now. Now is the time: Season Two.Adam: Don’t make us do an NPR beg-a-thon. We will do it. We will bring out Garrison Keillor. We will bring out Dan Davies. It’ll be very very ugly.Nima: That’s our threat.Adam: Yeah. You don’t want that. You don’t want...