31 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 31, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-55-jake-tapper-and-the-art-of-faux-adversarialism[/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 where you can like, share and write nice things about us and support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is so appreciated, as are all of your lovely reviews on iTunes and Stitcher and wherever you get your wonderful podcast content. So thank you everyone for listening and keep the support coming. It’s really important and it always helps us out.Adam: Yeah, any support is really appreciated. If you thought about doing it and haven’t done it, by all means do it. It helps keep the show going. So yeah. Today’s episode is about one of our favorite center of the center of the center serious newsmen, Jake Tapper, and this episode is not just about him, but what...

17 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 17, 2018 | TranscriptNYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Dermot Shea joins “Inside City Hall” with host Errol Lewis on NY1, a 24-hour local New York City news channel, on January 9, 2018.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-54-local-crime-reporting-as-racist-police-stenography[/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 support the show through Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All of your support so far and hopefully in the future is so much appreciated. Thank you everyone.Adam: The suspect fled on foot, police say. Call this number if you have any information. The incident took place at the 1500 block of Westheimer. Police say. Sources are telling us. Suspect is thought to be armed and dangerous. We’ve all heard this type of Official Copspeak before. The local press dutifully informs us about quote unquote ‘suspects,’ ‘gang members’ infiltrating our neighborhoods, rampaging through the streets, climbing...

10 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 10, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-53-the-increasingly-dull-edge-of-hypocrisy-takedowns[/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 support the show through Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is so appreciated. It is great to be listener-supported, keeps us independent and saves us from putting ads on the show. So thank you everyone for supporting the show and those who have not yet, please do, because it’s great.Adam: I agree. We need your support actually. (Chuckles.) Um, it’s a lot of work. Trump says he opposed the war in Iraq, but in fact he supported it in some obscure interview from 2004. McCain was for the tax cuts before he opposed them. Republicans say they’re Christians, but support a philandering liar. Hypocrisy dunks, which reached peak popularity during the heyday of The Daily Show, for a long time where...

03 Oct

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Citations Needed | October 3, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-52-attacks-on-affirmative-action-and-the-commodification-of-diversity[/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 and support us through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson that’s Citations — with an ‘s’ — Needed, multiple citations are needed. Not just one. Citations Needed Podcast through Patreon and all your help has been amazing. Thank you so much. Please do keep it up. It helps us keep the show going.Adam: So we want to tackle a word today that’s very popular and that we think is both simultaneously very important but also increasingly buzz-wordy and sort of superficial. And that’s the concept of “diversity.” Diversity is sort of broadly believed by everyone from corporations to real estate agents to elite universities as something that one should strive for and take pride in. It’s a symbol of inclusion and what we kind of broadly call tolerance.Nima: Yeah. So...