18 Mar Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi and the People We Consider Human
Citations Needed | March 18, 2020 | TranscriptSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-105-pandemic-pelosi-and-the-people-we-consider-human[/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, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, all your help through Patreon is so appreciated. We are this week talking about — what else? What is on everyone’s mind? — Coronavirus. COVID-19, the global pandemic that is affecting every single person on Earth pretty much except for those countries that have been lucky enough so far to avoid it and are now banning Europeans which is very smart and they should have done it about 400 years ago. But we are deciding to address what is happening right now and more specifically what we are seeing in the media around the government reactions to this and the back padding that we are seeing...