17 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 17, 2021 | TranscriptA worker deemed “essential” during the COVID pandemic. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-131-the-essential-worker-racket-how-covid-hero-discourse-is-used-to-discipline-labor[/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 help to Patreon is so incredibly appreciated. We are 100 percent listener-funded and would really love to keep it that way.Adam: Yes, and our Patreon has about 70-plus mini-episode News Briefs we’ve done throughout the last few months and years, and you can go there and listen to those. And, of course, it helps keep the show totally independent and sustainable.Nima: “Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla’s workers returning to work,” Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad, quote, “thanking essential workers.” “Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to...

10 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 10, 2021 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-covid-in-prisons-no-one-cares-until-things-start-to-burn[/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. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded, and today, we wanted to talk about something that doesn’t really get as much news coverage as it needs to until there’s an if it bleeds, it leads kind of story. This is, and we touched on this nearly a year ago, the issue of COVID-19 and our prison and jail system in this country.Adam: Yeah, so we did a fairly long News Brief on this topic back in April of 2020 anticipating the COVID-19 pandemic would end up killing a lot of people in prisons by the virtue of what prisons and jails are. That has since come to bear in many ways and there’s also, now back on the uptick. As COVID spikes throughout...

03 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 3, 2021 | TranscriptPresidential candidate Ronald Reagan delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan on July 17, 1980.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/heartland-middle-america-and-us-medias-vaguely-nostalgic-racialized-code-for-white-grievance[/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. Of course you 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 help through Patreon is always incredibly appreciated, it keeps the show independent, it allows us to produce our full length episodes and give you some News Briefs along the way.Adam: As always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast, that is very much appreciated.Nima: “We need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics,” declared presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “AOC Kills Jobs Middle America Would Love to Have,” proclaims The...