29 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 29, 2020 | TranscriptSource: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Credit: NPR[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-108-how-gdp-fetishism-drives-climate-crisis-and-inequality[/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 joining us this week. We hope everyone is staying safe, staying healthy, hopefully if you can, staying in and listening to Citations Needed, thank you so much. Of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work, if you are able to at this time, through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All Your support is so appreciated and helps the show keep going but of course take care of yourselves first and your podcasts immediately after.Adam: No, take care of your podcasts first then feed your children. No, we appreciate the support we’ve gotten. If you can feel free to comment and rate us and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts.Nima: “Economists’ forecasts for GDP growth in 2020...

22 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 22, 2020 | TranscriptRetro Report / New York Times[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-107-pop-torts-and-the-ready-made-virality-of-frivolous-lawsuit-stories[/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 joining us this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work if you are able to do that at this time through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We cannot thank you enough for continuing to support us, we know we are in a very strange new world right now so we are hoping that everyone is staying safe, staying healthy, and listening to as many podcasts that are called Citations Needed as possible.Adam: Yes, during this trying time, we appreciate your support. We definitely are about 25,617 on the list of those on the front lines, but the content wars are important. Hopefully we’ll get you through this time with the content. I know there’s a...

15 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 15, 2020 | TranscriptFrom left: Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-106-the-sanitization-of-sanctions[/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 joining us this week. We are still obviously in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and cannot thank everyone enough for still tuning in to this podcast. Of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, if you are able at this time to support the show through Patreon.com that would be amazing go to Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support there keeps the show going, we have no sponsors, we have no ads, that is on purpose, that keeps us independent and your support allows us to do that.Adam: And as always, you can go to Apple Podcasts to subscribe to us and rate us and give us a...

08 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 8, 2020 | TranscriptRikers Island, New York. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-widespread-indifference-to-covid-19-in-prisons[/embed][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 you can rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, that is always so appreciated. We are doing these News Briefs in between our full length episodes as often as we can. There is a lot of news obviously moving very quickly these days because of the COVID-19 crisis and what we are trying to do is not only point out some of the shittier takes, some of the media tropes that we are seeing repeated ad nauseam now, but trying to also talk about some of the most underreported stories, some of the things that the media is missing.Adam: On this News Brief, we’re going to discuss how the media has covered the COVID crisis in prisons and jails. We want to start off by sort of giving a sense of the scope of the...