31 May

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Citations Needed | May 27, 2022 | TranscriptSean Hannity has opinions on the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. (Courtesy of Media Matters)[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 the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. We do these News Briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes when the news requires it and where we’re seeing a lot of tropes that we really want to dissect. That happens, of course, all the time, kind of the basis of our show in general. Adam, this week, the United States has seen yet another mass shooting at a school, this time in Uvalde, Texas. I am beyond furious at the country that we live in, and so this has been kind of all-consuming lately. The media has been covering this consistently. We wanted to talk about how the media covers these, but also namely...

11 May

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Citations Needed | May 11, 2022 | TranscriptAnthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/real-life-implications-of-pop-cultures-fascination-with-the-dubious-science-of-criminal-profiling[/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. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded and don’t have any advertisements.Adam: Yeah, being 100 percent independent in advertisements, in corporations, random nonprofit grants you’d have to beg for really helps us keep the show entirely independent and your support on Patreon makes that possible. So we’re very grateful for that.Nima: Criminal Minds. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Inside the Criminal Mind. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.Adam: These are the titles of popular television series, fictional or otherwise, or documentaries that rely on the work of so-called criminal profilers. They’re all premised, more or less,...

04 May

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Citations Needed | May 4, 2022 | TranscriptNew York Times columnist Kevin Roose urges readers to buy an NFT of one of his columns.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/the-last-100-in-your-bank-account-economy-how-crypto-nfts-and-gambling-prey-on-working-people[/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. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes, if you haven’t subscribed there, please do. It helps keep the episodes themselves free and helps keep the show, most importantly of all, ad free. We’re one of the few shows that does not take ad money. The temptation is great. We resist because you support us on Patreon and we’re very, very grateful.Nima: And because we’re so noble.Adam: So pure, we can’t help it. But it really does, it’s hard to go on our left-wing rant and then pivot to selling mattresses, it just...