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Citations Needed | January 24, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-24-highlighting-alternative-media-the-moral-limits-of-dunking-on-thomas-friedman[/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 everyone this week. You can follow us of course on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and of course you can always support the show via Patreon/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. You can find us through that platform, any help is obviously appreciated. The support we’ve gotten so far has been amazing and we can’t thank you all enough for helping us get this off the ground and keeping it going as you have. You know, it’s amazing Adam, we’ve been doing this for like six months now. Can you believe it?Adam: I know, we’re getting old.Nima: Yeah, it’s incredible.Adam: Our content’s fresh. We’re old. That’s the Citations Needed promise.Nima: (Laughs) Exactly. That’s our new tagline. But in addition with the New Year, we’re also going to be expanding our...

27 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 27, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-42-populism-the-medias-favorite-catch-all-smear-for-the-left[/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. Of course you can find us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook/Citations Needed and help us out, support the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Adam: Yeah, uh, any help on Patreon is always appreciated. It helps keep the show growing and to keep going, which is always good.Nima: I think that’s always good to keep us growing and going.Adam: I agree. We’re very good. You should support us cause we’re good. That’s my pitch. If I was a marketing expert, I’d be like —Nima: Yeah, we’re good.Adam: ‘Citations Needed. It’s good.’Nima: Yeah. (Laughs)Adam: Today we are talking about the catch-all smear of “populism” and how everyone and their mother and everyone and their goldfish became an expert on populism, uh, over the last two, three years.Nima: The most...

20 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 20, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-41-the-moral-poverty-of-capitalist-healthcare-framing[/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, especially to any new listeners out there. Not that we don’t love listeners who have been with us for quite a while, but we’ve been doing this show since July of 2017 and come a long way I think.Adam: They grow up fast.Nima: I know. Can you believe it? Can you believe us? Thank you everyone for listening. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and help us out, support the show, keep it going, keep it growing through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi. You can help us out that way. That is much appreciated.Adam: Yeah, any, any help on Patreon is very much appreciated. Helps keep it going. Um, so this week we are covering a topic that is...

13 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 13, 2018 | TranscriptGeorge W. Bush holds hands with Michelle Obama during a memorial service following the multiple police shootings in Dallas, Texas, U.S., July 12, 2016. (Credit: Carlo Allegri/Reuters)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-40-the-civility-fetish[/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: Thanks, everyone, for listening this week. You can of course follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, like, share, comment, do whatever on Facebook at Citations Needed and help us out, fund the show, keep it going through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. You’ll find us on there. All your help is so much appreciated.Adam: Yeah. Sorry to keep having to push that. But it actually does, it does help. So if you thought about doing it but haven’t donated, please do. It does, it does make it sustainable. And uh, we want to be sustainable because, um, that makes a better show.Nima: (Laughs)Adam: Uh, so. So today’s episode is, has...

06 Jun

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Citations Needed | June 6, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-39-from-cradle-to-courtroom-how-the-media-stacks-the-deck-against-defendants[/embed]This episode of Citations Needed was recorded live in front of a studio audience at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, New York, on May 25, 2018.[Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. Live!(Applause)Nima Shirazi: Woo hoo. Alright. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Citations Needed, I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: This, as you well know, is our first ever live show. (Applause) Thanks to all of you for coming out. This is amazing. What a room. We are recording live from UnionDocs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, my home borough, thank you G train. Thank you to Florence and Josh, who you just heard do the intro, and to everyone here at UnionDocs for hosting us tonight. Thank you, everyone. Uh, before we get started, I will remind you all that you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod; follow, share, like, do whatever you do on Facebook at Citations Needed. And for those who would like to support the show, support the work, keep it going, it’s totally listener funded, you...

23 May

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Citations Needed | May 23, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-38-the-medias-bogus-generation-obsession[/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 so much for joining us, everyone, this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed and help us out on Patreon at Citations Needed Podcast. All your support is much appreciated.Adam: Yeah, so today’s show is a topic that we are, I know you and I are fascinated with because it’s so mindbogglingly stupid and yet is very, very ubiquitous and that’s the idea of “generations.” Time and again we hear, its become a cliché at this point: ‘Millennials are killing the housing markets,’ ‘Boomers are bloating the social safety net,’ ‘Gen-Xers are changing the nature of work.’Nima: Whatever that means.Adam: Yeah. We hear stories about one generation or another engaging in some collective act of consumption or moral failing that explicitly or implicitly sort of harms another generation. Right? It’s...

16 May

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Citations Needed | May 16, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-37-black-lives-matter-dreamers-and-the-problem-of-the-perfect-victim[/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. Obviously you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, share, like, tell us things, share things, blah blah blah blah blah on the Facebook, Citations Needed, and of course, help us out, become a supporter of the show and of our work and help us keep it going through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your help is so appreciated.Adam: So, today’s topic is one that we’ve tangentially addressed but never really dug into on its own terms. And I know that it’s something we’ve struggled with a lot and how to frame how the news covers populations that we were sort of generally call oppressed or victimized. Um, and that’s the problem of “the perfect victim” as it relates to Black Lives Matter and immigration.Nima: So, we hear obviously in the press, um,...

09 May

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Citations Needed | May 9, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-36-maplewashing-whats-behind-canadas-progressive-veneer[/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 so much for joining us this week everyone. You can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook, Citations Needed and of course, help us out, become a supporter, become a member, join the team of Citations Needed. (Laughs)Adam: (Laughs) Join the team. But seriously we are-Nima: (Laughing) Hold on, I gotta get this out.Adam: I’m sorry.Nima: This is the reason why we don’t, you know, try to sell mattresses and snack packs. Help us out on Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. Every little bit helps. Thank you, everyone.Adam: We have officially introduced transcripts. The Patreon support we’ve gotten has helped take care of that and grow the show and the depth of the show. So we really, really appreciate it. We’re going to grow it even more as we go on. The feedback, as...

25 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 25, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-35-the-total-blackout-of-the-korean-left[/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.Adam: Yeah, thanks so much for all the listenership and support we’re still going strong. Obviously it’s, it’s very helpful, if you can, to support us on Patreon to make the show sustainable and to, um, allow us to do transcripts and to have research assistants and to make the show more robust as we expand. We’ve also been doing a lot of News Briefs for Patreon, which are 15-to-30 minute segments that we do for our patrons. So helping us out on Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast, we’re the one with the gold and black logo. That’s my shameless groveling.Nima: Yeah, no, that’s good.Adam: Nima always loves when I do that because I am super earnest.Nima: (Laughs) You’re very earnest. It’s true.Adam: Well, it does. All those things were true. It does actually...

18 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 18, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc[/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 everyone this week. Of course you can follow us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook at Citations Needed and help us out via Patreon, become a supporter, a patron, a member, a joiner of Citations Needed, Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. That would be much appreciated.Adam: Yes, it would. So, on today’s episode we’re going to talk about a topic that we’ve touched on quite a bit, but never really focused on, which is what the hell is wrong with MSNBC? It’s a question we get a lot on social media, which is like, what’s their deal? Why do they suck so bad?Nima: Mhmm, yeah. What has happened with them?Adam: Right. So, MSNBC is by far the most influential media outlet on the American left. People watch cable news. It sets the...