24 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 17, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-84-how-claims-of-sowing-discord-silence-criticism-of-power[/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, of course, you can become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. This, everyone, is our final episode of Season Two of Citations Needed. We after this one will be taking a wee break from the podcast grind for the rest of the summer.Adam: In the meantime we will have some News Briefs for the Patreon subscribers but we will be back in September with fresh new episodes after we have our little summer recharge.Nima: Yeah, it’s been a really amazing two years. We cannot thank our listeners enough. Obviously we do that at the end of each episode, but you know we just wanted to start this final episode of the season by thanking you all. We obviously...

17 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 17, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-83-the-unchecked-conservative-ideology-of-us-medias[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We are 100 percent listener funded. So your support through Patreon is incredibly helpful to us. It keeps the show going and allows us to, uh, keep churning out all of these episodes for you.Adam: Yeah. And remember, as always, if you do subscribe to us on Patreon, you get 42, 43 or so mini-episodes we call News Briefs. They are about 10 to 40 minutes long where we talk about more recent events as they unfold. Obviously they’re not particularly recent anymore, but they’re still good and still relevant because I don’t know, ‘something, something history rhymes.’Nima: Exactly. The Washington Post rates this statement “Three Pinocchios.” Politifact rates this meme “pants...

10 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 10, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-82-western-civilization-and-white-supremacy-the-right-wing-co-option-of-antiquity[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We are 100 percent listener-funded, so all your support goes such a long way and is very much appreciated.Adam: If you sign up to our Patreon, we have a lot of News Briefs you can listen to which are short sort of mini episodes we do just for people who support us there. For those who do support us, we really appreciate it.Nima: “Western civilization.” It’s a term that’s been a staple of the American right for centuries, but as of late it’s having a major resurgence. This renewed obsession with defending so-called “western civilization” is now a very hot product.Adam: Both the traditional...

03 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 3, 2019 | TranscriptPro-Nixon construction workers riot in Lower Manhattan in May 1970, attacking students and anti-war activists protesting the Vietnam War, bombing of Cambodia and the fatal shootings at Kent State.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-81-how-us-media-pits-labor-and-climate-activists-against-one-other[/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 week. Of course you can find the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We are 100% listener-funded. We do not have a corporate backers. We do not have commercials. We do not read out ads on air. That is all because we are completely supported by our listeners. That is all of you. Thank you so much through Patreon. So if you have been supporting us, endless thanks. If you maybe are considering it, please do. It really does help us out.Adam: Yeah, and remember we have about...