19 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 19, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-50-anti-imperialism-and-msnbc-approved-socialism[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and of course you can help out the show financially, help us keep going, you can do that through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, through Patreon.com.Adam: That is Citations with an ‘s’ — remember not to give to the other one, which we still have beef with.Nima: (Laughs) And that we do not endorse.Adam: We do not endorse. So today we’re going to start by tackling something that is, I think is the subtext of a lot of conversations about what we talk about when we talk about the word ‘socialism’. Socialism is sort of back. It’s been back since Bernie Sanders ran for president in 2015 and ‘16 and did it quite well. And now there’s a recent resurgence in candidates who are running after the Democratic Socialist label and even major Democratic...

12 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 12, 2018 | TranscriptSurrounded by all male lawmakers, George W. Bush signs legislation banning so-called “partial birth” abortions on November 5, 2003.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-49-shifting-media-representations-of-abortion-part-ii[/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 for listening everyone. This is episode two of our second season. Thank you for joining us. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, like and share through Facebook Citations Needed, subscribe through iTunes, Stitcher, Libsyn, wherever you get your premium podcast content. Do that, that is always wonderfully helpful. Leave reviews. Say nice things. And you can certainly support the show, keep it going, keep it independent through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, that’s with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. It’s a black and gold logo. All your help is so much appreciated. We are now into season two and, uh, we’re gonna keep it going with this Part II on media representations and discussion around abortion.Adam: Yeah. So...

05 Sep

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Citations Needed | September 5, 2018 | TranscriptKatherine Heigl and Seth Rogan in 2007’s ‘Knocked Up’ (Apatow Productions/Universal Pictures)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-48-shifting-media-representations-of-abortion-part-i[/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: Thanks for listening everyone. We are now in Season Two of Citations Needed. Very happy to be back. Happy September. I hope everyone’s summer was lovely. You can follow the show of course on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and all your help through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson is so appreciated. It has sustained us through our first season. So please do contribute to that. If you’ve been thinking about it, but haven’t done it up until now. Now is the time: Season Two.Adam: Don’t make us do an NPR beg-a-thon. We will do it. We will bring out Garrison Keillor. We will bring out Dan Davies. It’ll be very very ugly.Nima: That’s our threat.Adam: Yeah. You don’t want that. You don’t want...

08 Aug

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Citations Needed | August 8, 2018 | Transcript“The White Man’s Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling),” Judge Magazine, April 1, 1899[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-47-american-magnanimity-spinning-crimes-against-humanity-as-benevolence[/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: Thanks everyone for joining us this week. Our season one finale. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed, support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help has been and will continue to be so greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone for listening and supporting the show for this first year. It’s been incredible.Adam: Yeah. This episode marks the end of Season 1. We’re going to take a break for three weeks to prep season two, which will premiere after Labor Day.Nima: Right.Adam: So I’m excited. I thought it was a very, very good first season. We obviously appreciate all the support. Uh, we did a lot of interviews, had a lot of great times.Nima: Yes. And of course...

01 Aug

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Citations Needed | August 1, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-46-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-part-ii-bill-gates-in-africa[/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: Thanks everyone for listening this week. This will be part two of our billionaire knows best or the not so benevolent billionaire trope in the media that we started last week. And we urge you to listen to the first episode and then come back to this one if you have not already. Um, that would probably be best. But thanks everyone for listening. Of course, you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, help the show out at Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast and that’s with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. So thanks everyone for listening.Adam: Yeah. And um, any help through Patreon makes it so we don’t have to go and ask the Gates Foundation for money, which keeps us independent and allows us to do programs where we, um, piss off, you know, the sort of...

25 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 25, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media[/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 us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook, Citations Needed, support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your support is so helpful. Helps us keep going and growing. And we’ve been doing it for now over a year. So your support really has brought us here and hopefully will continue. So thanks everyone for listening.Adam: Yeah, if you’ve thought about it but haven’t yet, please try to donate to Patreon. It does actually help. So Russia, as we all know, has sinister oligarchs whereas the United States we are told has philanthropists or job creators or industry titans who unlike the oligarchs, they got their wealth through moxie, hard work and dedication and pure merit. Whereas billionaires in other countries, whether it’s China or Russia or kind of batty countries, they got...

18 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 18, 2018 | TranscriptJozef Mlot-Mroz carries a sign denouncing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Boston, MA on April 23, 1965. (AP Photo)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-44-russiagate-year-3-using-the-nonstop-specter-of-russia-to-smear-black-activists[/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 joining us this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is amazing, has been amazing. It has been a year that we’ve been doing it. I’m impressed by us, Adam.Adam: I think we’re pretty great. I agree. I’m on a new self help program about self affirmation, no.Nima: Yes, exactly. I’m good enough, smart enough and doggone it people listen to our podcast. So that’s good.Adam: So, um, we talked about in the last episode, this is the second part of a two-parter. If you haven’t listened to the prior episode, I suggest that you...

11 Jul

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Citations Needed | July 11, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-43-russiagate-year-3-how-liberals-martial-posture-harms-the-left-part-1[/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 joining us this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, follow, like, share or get in touch through Facebook, Citations Needed. And of course you can support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help is much appreciated and it helps show keep going.Adam: So, for over two years, the United States government has been investigating the Russian interference into the 2016 election that is broadly agreed by most official quarters to have been favorable to President Trump. And as a result of this, something really strange has happened, there’s been a flip in the traditional right center and left perspective about how we view our intelligence agencies, namely the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency where the left now holds up the FBI and the...

04 Jul

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Citations Needed | February 14, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-27-how-the-media-mainstreamed-racist-pseudoscience[/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 for joining us this week everyone. You can find us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and of course you can always support the show through Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. And we thank you so much for it. It really helps us keep the show going, especially since we are going to be hopefully building the team out a little bit, as we mentioned on a previous episode. Any little bit helps. It is really great to get the support and also feedback from everyone, so thanks everyone. Keep that coming.Adam: So on today’s show we’re going to parse the two most popular racist crime tropes over the past 20 years. The first one is going to be Broken Windows and the second one is going to be a sort of...

04 Jul

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Citations Needed | February 7, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-26-the-welfare-dog[/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: Like the show. Share the show. Talk to us, do whatever you do on Facebook at Citations Needed.Adam: Or go to our Twitter @CitationsPod.Nima: And of course you can help us out. You can support the show via Patreon, Citations Needed Podcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. Our names are right on there. It’s a lovely black and gold logo. Check it out, help us out. Keep the show going. We really appreciate all your help.Adam: So we haven’t touched on this in a long time. You and I are I know offline obsessed with the racialization of government spending in how these words and narratives get adopted, sort of brainlessly by the media. And one of those words is a word that we need to dissect because now in the past few weeks, especially after...