25 Mar

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Citations Needed | March 24, 2021 | TranscriptSource: KVUE[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-austin-activists-combat-anti-homeless-stigma-in-prop-b-media-fight[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes when there is something a bit more pressing to discuss. We are still on our spring break, and Adam, you are still transitioning back to the show from your parental leave, which is ongoing. Congratulations to you, new dad.Adam: Evidently, yes, I’m enjoying it very much, I’ll spare you the personal schmaltz, we try to avoid that in the show, but kid is great, love him to death. Got a good attitude.Nima: He’s a winner.Adam: Very sweet, pees on me all the time. Moving on. We’ve been following and connected with a group of activists in Austin who helped us facilitate our episode on Incitement Against the Homeless two-parter we did in 2019, and as it turns out, there’s a really important vote coming up on something called Prop B which is going to criminalize the existence of homeless people.Nima: Right. Recriminalize incidentally.Adam: Yeah,...

10 Mar

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Citations Needed | March 10, 2021 | TranscriptCalifornia National Guard members stand outside Los Angeles City Hall during the George Floyd protests of summer 2020. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP)https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/cn132_20210310_crisisnarrative[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 our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded and we have no advertisers, we don’t run commercials, we have no billionaire backers, we just have you amazing listeners who keep the show growing and going.Adam: Yes, it keeps it independent and sustainable and as always, you can check out the mini episodes we have for patrons only, we call them News Briefs, you may have noticed some are public but we have many that are not, that are just for patrons and that...

03 Mar

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Citations Needed | March 3, 2021 | TranscriptABC News interviews Steve Ellis, the Vice President of right-wing group Taxpayers for Common Sense.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-the-transactional-dog-whistle-politics-of-the-term-taxpayer[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I’m 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 our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded and we do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled episodes when there’s just something that is on our minds and we really just want to get it off our chest. And the thing that we have been seeing, maybe not now more than ever, because this is a trope that has been going on for decades, let alone centuries, but the idea of “taxpayer money” and the “taxpayer’s burden,” what is being done at the “taxpayer’s expense,” we hear this all the time in our media, and also, of course, political rhetoric and we thought we would just take the time...