29 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 29, 2020 | TranscriptFlipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa. (HGTV)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-116-the-pro-gentrification-aspirationalism-of-hgtvs-house-flipping-shows[/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: Welcome to the season finale of our third season of Citations Needed. We’ve made it so far, Adam. Of course everyone listening 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. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated. It’s the way that we keep the show going, we are 100 percent listener funded, we have no commercials, no billionaire backers, it is all just our listeners, which is why we can stay completely independent and say whatever the fuck we want.Adam: And as always, if you join our Patreon or subscribe to our Patreon, you get the 60 or so little mini-episodes we have throughout the years and those are responding to the news...

22 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 22, 2020 | TranscriptIron Man (2008). (Paramount)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-115-hollywood-anti-muslim-racism-part-iii-how-the-pentagon-cia-sponsor-american-mythmaking[/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 100 percent listener funded, we have no billionaire backers, we do not read ads on the air and we definitely are not supported by the Pentagon.Adam: Yes, and as always remember, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, we really appreciate any feedback you can give us there.Nima: For over a hundred years, the American film industry has been promoting and glorifying U.S. foreign policy, initially working with the military and Department of Defense, and eventually, the CIA as well. From its origins as a producer of World War I propaganda like 1911’s The Military Air-Scout...

15 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 15, 2020 | TranscriptZero Dark Thirty (2012).[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-114-anti-muslim-racism-in-hollywood-part-ii-oscar-bait-imperialism[/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 become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support through Patreon is so appreciated, we cannot do the show without you, we are 100 percent listener funded, we do not have any ads, we will not have commercials and it is all because of you, our amazing listeners.Adam: And as always you can check out our News Briefs on our Patreon for people who subscribe to our Patreon, those are a little mini episodes we do. That, of course, helps sustain the show and keeps the episodes themselves free, which they will always be.Nima: So often, our cultural context for understanding what we see on the news, and hear in our politics, is informed by...

08 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 8, 2020 | TranscriptTrue Lies (1994).[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-113-hollywood-anti-muslim-racism-part-1-action-and-adventure-schlock[/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 our work, if you’re able to at this time, through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support through Patreon is so appreciated, it is the way we keep the show going, we have no billionaire backers, no ads or commercials are read on the show, nothing of that sort, we are 100 percent listener funded, that means you and we are able to do the show the way we want to do the show because of that because the only people telling us what to do (whispers) are our listeners and that’s you.Adam: Although I don’t care what you think either. No, just kidding. Ah definitely check out...

07 Jul

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Citations Needed | June 10, 2020 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-the-growing-pushback-to-copaganda[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson if you’re able to do that at this time. We do these News Breaks in between our regularly scheduled episodes when the news is moving incredibly fast and we just have a lot to say. And so this time around, though, there is some news that we want to comment on because it actually has to do with what we have been talking about on a number of different episodes over the past few years Adam, namely how copaganda is used and abused and exploited on network TV.Adam: So yeah, surprisingly, major copaganda reality TV shows like Live PD and Cops have been pulled from TV schedules. It’s not officially canceled. The producers of these shows said out of respect for the family of George Floyd in the subsequent protests...

07 Jul

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Citations Needed | June 4, 2020 | TranscriptMinnesota Governor Tim Walz at a press conference regarding the uprisings in Minneapolis and St. Paul.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/cops-push-outside-agitator-line-exploit-real-fears-of-far-right-violence-to-delegitimize-protests[/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 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. We do these News Briefs in between our full-length episodes when there is oftentimes terrible news in the news constantly or terrible takes in the news and usually it’s both. Unsurprisingly, this time around, it is both. We on our last News Brief covered some of the terrible reporting and punditry that we have been seeing since the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent uprising.Adam: Right. So obviously, as a media criticism show, we want to approach what’s going on from a media criticism perspective. So today we’re going to talk about a trope which has been all over the place this past week that we do think needs a kind of nuanced dissection, which...

07 Jul

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Citations Needed | May 30, 2020 | TranscriptCredit: The Real News Network[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-7-years-on-us-media-still-has-no-answer-for-blm-other-than-vague-handwringing[/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, become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We do these News Briefs in between our full length episodes when there is news that we really feel like we need to be talking about. Sometimes it’s a whole lot of bullshit, a lot of time it’s a different kind of bullshit and this time we are talking about the ongoing murder of black people in this country by cops and the way that media talks about it or doesn’t talk about it.Adam: Yeah, so we want to qualify this by saying that we’re recording this on Friday the 29th, should be posted in a day or two, so I assume much of what we’re saying will probably have gotten worse and gotten worse in different ways. So where it stands now is there’s been a I...

07 Jul

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Citations Needed | May 27, 2020 | TranscriptDonald Trump displays a custom New England Patriots jersey during the team’s visit to the White House in 2017. (Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-trump-the-nfl-and-the-upcoming-mother-of-all-culture-wars[/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 become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We do these News Briefs in between our full length episodes when we are just so compelled by what is going on in the news that we cannot help ourselves and we need to talk to each other about things and not only talk to each other, Adam and I love to talk to each other about bullshit that we see in the news, but this time around on today’s News Brief, we are going to be joined by none other than friend of the show Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation magazine, host of the Edge of Sports podcast and author of quite...