Citations Needed | November 25, 2020 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep124-mental-health-covid-how-us-media-spins-societal-failures-into-personal-self-help-journeys[/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 incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded, we don’t read out ads or have commercials on air, that is because of the unbelievable generosity of our listeners who support us through Patreon. That’s you.Adam: Yes, and as always remember if you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and any reviews you leave there are very much appreciated.Nima: As long as they’re good.Adam: As long as they’re good. If they’re bad, write them on a bathroom wall.Nima: A CNN headline from this past summer read: “Mental health during coronavirus: Tips for processing...

Citations Needed | November 18, 2020 | TranscriptPresident Barack Obama speaks to the press after a meeting with members of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 2, 2015. (Official White House by Chuck Kennedy)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-123-how-liberal-meta-demands-for-investigations-and-studies-silence-activists-and-accomplish-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 the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, to become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated. We have no commercials, we don’t run ads, we don’t have any grant money, we just have you, our amazing listeners, and that’s the way we want it. So please do if you have not already and you would like to become a supporter through Patreon.Adam: And as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast, that always helps us and any feedback...

Citations Needed | July 8, 2020 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-the-harpers-letter-and-our-extremely-narrow-self-serving-definition-of-cancel-culture[/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 our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes when the takes are just so hot that we need to get something out quicker, a little more immediate, there is something burning that we need to discuss and I know, Adam, this time around, we really are intrigued by what I’m going to call a letter on justice and open debate that was published by Harper’s Magazine on July 7, 2020.Adam: We are officially entering the letter discourse, it is impossible not to enter the letter discourse, the letter discourse will find you, it is like death from Final Destination, you can’t avoid it.Nima: You can’t avoid it, it can skip you, but it’ll come back around.Adam: It’ll come back later. So we’re just gonna get it over with,...