24 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 24, 2020 | TranscriptVox’s Ezra Klein (center) and Sarah Kliff (left) interview Barack Obama in 2017. (Ron Sachs-Pool / Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-112-how-polarization-discourse-flattens-power-dynamics-and-says-nothing[/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 if you are able to become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so unbelievably appreciated. It keeps the show going. We have no corporate sponsors, we do not run advertisements, we do not read off commercials written by other people. We don’t do it. We are 100 percent listener funded and our Patreon supporters are those listeners who allow us to keep doing the show.Adam: Yeah, we’re doing a lot of News Briefs, some of which are on Patreon, you can definitely check that out. There’s about 50-plus of those little mini episodes so if you subscribe...

17 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 17, 2020 | TranscriptGeorge W. Bush poses with Jack Faris of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, which worked to lower corporate taxes. (Credit: NFIB)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-111-how-small-business-rhetoric-is-used-to-protect-corporate-america[/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. Of course you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so appreciated. We are 100 percent listener funded. Our patrons really do keep the show going.Adam: And as always, please rate and subscribe to us if you can on iTunes. That always helps.Nima: “Obama lauds small business owners in his State of the Union,” The Washington Post read. “I have always said that there is nothing more optimistic — perhaps maybe getting married — than starting a small business” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells us. “John Kerry would...