29 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 29, 2022 | Transcript(Drew Petrimoulx / Shutterstock.com)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-forced-pregnancies-gutting-the-epa-and-growing-frustration-over-vote-harder-messaging[/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. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. We do these News Briefs in between our regular full-length episodes, and this week, Adam, I think it’s probably no surprise that we really feel like we want to talk about the Supreme Court decision about Roe, but also some of the broader issues that we’re seeing play out, some other current and pending Supreme Court decisions, and of course, the media’s response to this.Adam: Right. Some of this was discussed in Episode 163 that aired last week, but we really wanted to expand on some of these themes and get deeper into what we view as being the broader theme on the show, I think it’s fair to say, is the failure of liberal institutions to meet...

22 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 22, 2022 | TranscriptSupreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on October 12, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-163-the-media-manufactured-mystique-of-the-us-court-system[/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, we don’t have commercials, we don’t talk mattresses, we don’t do stuff like that on purpose and that is all due to the very generous contributions of our listeners that really do keep this show sustainable.Adam: And if you already support it and want to support it more or you just want really cool merch we know her merch store at Bonfire.com/store/citations-needed, you can search bonfire for Citations Needed there. We got t-shirts, tank tops,...

15 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 8, 2022 | TranscriptSan Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin (Beth LaBerge / KQED)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-boudin-recall-coverage-and-how-the-nyt-sells-tough-on-crime-dogma-to-squishy-liberals[/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 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 there’s an article — I don’t know — say in The New York Times that encapsulates everything shitty about police funding reporting, and Adam, you actually recently wrote about a new New York Times article, kind of an opinion piece masked as straight news on your Substack — which everyone should check out, that’s The Column — but Adam, why don’t you lay out for us this new egregious example of a trope that we’ve seen for years?Adam: Well, yeah, so obviously there’s the defund the police movement in the summer of 2020. It was endorsed by about, I don’t know, five elected Democrats, pretty much...

15 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 15, 2022 | TranscriptStill from the intro for 6ABC’s Action News, broadcast in the Philadelphia metro area in the early 1970s.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/live-interview-action-news-the-rise-of-anti-black-local-crime-reporting-w-layla-a-jones[/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: This is a live interview, we do these from time to time for our Patreon subscribers. That is you. And then of course, the full episode gets released a little while later for every one because that’s how we do it. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and if you’re not already, although those joining us live right now are, you can become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, all your help through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes. And as always, you can subscribe to us on Patreon. As we said, for those who are not aware, you’ll get over 110 News Briefs, extensive show...

01 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 1, 2022 | TranscriptBarack Obama and Melinda Gates visit the Gates-financed TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 2011. (Doug Mills / The New York Times)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-162-how-the-data-driven-label-sanitizes-cruel-austerity-politics[/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 our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes, if you can, please give to our Patreon, it helps us out a lot. We have special little goodies there, over 110 or 120 or so little mini episodes, it helps keep the episodes themselves free, and helps keep the show sustainable.Nima: “Follow The Data” is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted in 2016. “How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing,” a 2018 NPR headline read. “Data suggests that schools might be one of the least risky kinds...