27 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 27, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-67-the-gate-keeping-power-serving-tautology-of-electability[/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 listening 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. And all your help is so appreciated. The show will always be free and available for those listening to the full length episodes, but we do have a lot of extra content for our supporters so if that is somehow an incentive to you to help us out, please, please do support the show.Adam: In addition to keeping the show sustainable, it helps keep the show free and the support we get from Patreon helps make that possible.Nima: Please do, if you can, rate and rank the show on iTunes or wherever you listen to the show, that also really, really helps us.Adam: We always appreciate that....

20 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 20, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-66-whataboutism-the-medias-favorite-rhetorical-shield-against-criticism-of-us-policy[/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 listening this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and you can help us out, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Adam: And as always please if you haven’t yet rate us on iTunes. That helps us a lot. Again, we’ve mentioned this before, Nima and I are wildly insecure. We need all the validation we can get. It fills the hole in our soul.Nima: You just say that and I agree.Adam: (Chuckles.) Well at least I am. Anyway, rate us and leave reviews apparently helps us quite a bit. So if you thought about doing that and haven’t, please do it.Nima: Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago — and the subsequent martial posture of the liberal establishment — pundits,...

06 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 6, 2019 | TranscriptThe illustration accompanying Fortune Magazine’s “Commanders in Chief: The Women Building America’s Military Machine,” September 24, 2018. (credit: Fortune)[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 listening. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed and support us through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. And we are one hundred percent listener supported so thank you everyone who is listening and who is supporting us. It keeps the show going and we cannot do it without you. So thank you so much again.Adam: The support’s been really great so we really appreciate it. And remember if you do subscribe on Patreon, you get dozens of News Briefs. These kind of 15-to-20 minute things that we’ve done throughout the last year-and-a-half that are pretty popular with the Patreon supporter. So there’s Patreon-only content.Nima: That’s right. As well as bi-weekly...