26 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 26, 2022 | TranscriptA demonstration in Spokane, WA. (Young Kwak)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/live-interview-police-defunding-that-never-was-and-abolitionism-as-a-long-term-social-project[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Hello everyone. 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: Happy New Year and thank you, everyone, for joining us for yet another live Citations Needed interview. Of course you can follow the show if you don’t already on the Twitter machine @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and you can also become a supporter or advocate for others to become supporters of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. You don’t actually have to advocate but thanks for all your help, it is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: We need a multi-level marketing element so people become evangelical.Nima: Yeah exactly.Adam: 10 percent off your next —Nima: We need a pyramid scheme, I think, you know.Adam: When you become a supporter you get access to over a hundred News Briefs, extensive show notes for every episode, our newsletter, and more fun...

19 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 19, 2022 | TranscriptCast and crew members film the 2019 Hallmark movie Holiday for Heroes in Connecticut. (The Day / Dana Jensen)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/a-very-special-news-brief-hallmarks-anti-labor-churn-a-follow-up-conversation[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We are excited about our News Brief today because it is a direct follow up to our most recent full-length episode on Hallmark Christmas movies. When we posted that show on December 15, 2021, we were contacted by a listener who, Adam, had an experience all their own with the Hallmark cinematic universe.Adam: Yeah, so they’re a union screenwriter now. Prior to that, though, they were trying to, when they were working in the industry, they had gone deep within the sort of pitch process with Hallmark, they did not actually make a Hallmark movie to be clear, this is not someone high up in Hallmark, but it is someone very familiar with the process who had a bunch of rather amusing internal documents, including content guidelines and various emails about how the process works, and we thought it...