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...

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...

27 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 27, 2022 | TranscriptUnited States soldiers take an early psychological test in 1917, the year the US entered World War I. (National Archives)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-159-the-anti-worker-pseudo-psychology-of-corporate-personality-testing[/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.Adam: That’s true, we don’t do ads, which is very unusual. So if you can, please support us through Patreon. It does help keep the episodes themselves free. And if you sign up there you get access to mini episode News Briefs, AMAs, newsletters, and other little goodies. So if you can, please help us out there, and help keep the show sustainable.Nima: “Is it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or b) a consistently reasonable person?” “Are...

13 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 13, 2022 | TranscriptBarack Obama and Justin Trudeau at the White House in 2016. (Olivier Douliery / Pool | Credit: EPA)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/live-interview-what-happened-to-our-politics-after-the-end-of-history-with-luke-savage[/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 for yet another Citations Needed live interview. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and if you’re not already a patron, you can join us through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. We are joined tonight live by a number of our amazing Patreon supporters. So thank you for joining us live tonight for this Citations Needed interview.Adam: Yes, and as always, for those who are not currently patrons who are listening to this later, if you do sign up, you get access to 100 plus News Briefs, extensive show notes for each episode, our newsletter and little...

06 Apr

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Citations Needed | April 6, 2022 | TranscriptNew York City “planner” Robert Moses with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge, 1939.https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-158-how-notions-of-blight-and-barrenness-were-created-to-erase-unwanted-peoples[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 and run no commercials or ads of any kind.Adam: As such, if you could help us on our Patreon, we’d be very grateful, you’ll get access to our newsletter AMAs, live interviews, other special little goodies we do for our patrons, and as always, if you do like the show, please go to Apple Podcast and rate and subscribe to it there, it really helps us out.Nima: “It is safe to say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums,” wrote New York City official Robert Moses in...