28 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 28, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry[/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. Your support is incredibly appreciated by us, so thank you everyone who has given and supports the show on a regular basis. It is amazing to have this kind of listenership but we can always use more.Adam: Don’t make us do the beg-athon. We’ll do it if we have to. We’ll do three hours with Terry Gross. We will do it. It’s a threat. It’s a threat.Nima: Yeah. Don’t make us do that, but thank you so much for your support. Uh, it is amazing and we love our listeners so we’re not going to threaten you anymore with anything.Adam: You’ve no doubt seen the headlines nonstop for the past few years. Quote, “Why...

21 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 21, 2018 | Transcript[Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow Citations Needed on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and support the show at Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. I’m excited for this extended interview that we are sharing with our listeners today.Adam: Yeah, the issue of focus groups is one that is obviously very close to media criticism in general, and how we talk about perception and how the feedback loop between corporations, those in power, and the general population, how that kind of feedback loop happens. And Liza Featherstone wrote a really interesting article in The Guardian about the history of focus groups that we wanted to get into a little bit and talk about in a kind of more, a less structured more free flowing way. She also wrote a book called Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation that we had the privilege of getting copies of and we were reading it and talking about it....

14 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 14, 2018 | TranscriptPlaintiff Joaquin Carcano, center, addresses reporters after a hearing Monday, June 25, 2018, in Winston-Salem, N.C., on their lawsuit challenging the law that replaced North Carolina’s “bathroom bill.” Carcano and other transgender plaintiffs argue the new law continues to discourage transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity. (Credit: Jonathan Drew / AP)[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. Thanks for listening everyone.Adam: Yeah. Thank you so much for your support as always. If you’ve thought about giving and haven’t please do. It helps keep the show going. And, um, we will continue to threaten with SquareSpace ads.Nima: (Laughs) We will do it. Don’t make us do it.Adam: Yeah. So we really appreciate it as always.Nima: In the aftermath of...

07 Nov

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Citations Needed | November 7, 2018 | Transcript(Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Chuck Burden)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-56-how-the-media-learned-to[/embed]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 listening this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and you can financially support the show, which is always so appreciated and very necessary for us to keep it going, through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with me — Nima Shirazi — and Adam Johnson. Thank you so much for your support thus far. We hope it keeps going. Being listener supported is very, very important to us, so please do join up if you haven’t already.Adam: It’s, you know, it’s an important part of keeping the show sustainable. It actually does require a lot of work, so we appreciate any help you can give us.Nima: Oh yeah. Today we’re going to be talking about something that we see all the time, surprise, surprise in the media: ‘The Bush administration didn’t send...

03 Nov

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Citations Needed | January 17, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-23-the-medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-porn[/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 find us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and of course you can always help us out if you go to Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, you can support the show there.Adam: Yeah, we obviously appreciate any support we can get. We’ve had a pretty decent amount so far to keep the momentum going. Ideally we like to get these shows out every week. So that kind of support makes that happen, we’ve gotten pretty good about doing that lately. So we really appreciate the feedback. It’s a good moral boost to know that ‘they love me, they really love me.’ No. Um, that people are actually listening and they’re engaging. The feedback’s been mostly positive, although we did get a one star review from some guy whose sole comment was, “Citations Needed? I...