09 Mar

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Citations Needed | March 9, 2022 | TranscriptBill Clinton, next to Jesse Jackson, denounces Sister Souljah at a 1992 Rainbow Coalition conference.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-157-how-the-culture-war-label-us-used-to-trivialize-life-and-death-economic-issues[/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 incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yeah, and as always, please rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and please we can subscribe and sign up to our Patreon it helps keep the show commercial free and the episodes themselves free to everyone. If you sign up for Patreon you’ll get special little mini episodes, newsletters, we do AMAs, live shows, various little goodies we do for our patrons and we absolutely appreciate the support there. So if you haven’t supported us yet, we really really ask that you do that, it helps...

02 Mar

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Citations Needed | March 2, 2022 | TranscriptDustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men (1976)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-156-how-the-investigative-journalism-aesthetic-can-be-used-to-launder-power-serving-narratives[/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 incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes, we can’t stress that enough. So if you’ve listened to the show and you like the show, we do ask that you please go to Patreon and sign up, it really helps keep the episodes themselves free and keep the show sustainable. There are special little goodies for patrons little mini episodes we do now and then, over 100 so far in the backlog you can listen to, as well as newsletters, AMAs, and other little special goodies we try to do to reward our patrons,...

27 Feb

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Citations Needed | January 21, 2021 | TranscriptVia USA Today[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-dem-aligned-media-set-up-teachers-unions-to-take-the-fall-for-midterm-losses[/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 incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. Happy New Year everyone. We’re going to be back very soon with full length episodes as usual for all your listening pleasure but in the meantime, we are here today with a News Brief which we do in between our full length episodes when there is something that we just really feel like we need to talk about, and today, Adam, we really wanted to talk about what we are currently experiencing in our COVID reality, the winter of labor discipline and, of course, management discontent.Adam: Yeah, so over the past few weeks there’s been a full-scale media pile-on of teachers’ unions as the new boogeyman for the midterms in 2022. They’re already setting many pundits like Jonathan Chait, you...

23 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 23, 2022 | TranscriptUS President Teddy Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir at Yosemite National Park, 1903. (Library of Congress)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-155-how-the-american-settler-colonial-project-shaped-popular-notions-of-conservation[/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 and don’t run commercials.Adam: Yeah, so if you can please support us on Patreon. There you can find AMAs, over 100 or so News Briefs for patrons-only, newsletter and other goodies for our patrons, it helps keep the episodes themselves free and helps keep the show sustainable.Nima: “Among these central ranges of continental mountains and these great companion parks…lies the pleasure-ground and health-home of the nation,” so wrote journalist Samuel Bowles in 1869. “Mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and...

09 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 9, 2022 | TranscriptAaron Sorkin‘s The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/inclusive-patriotism-how-radicals-are-retconned-into-liberal-champions-of-the-american-project[/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: And as always you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and please, if you can, support us on Patreon. There you will find little mini-episodes for patrons that we do every now and then, little News Briefs, as well as AMAs, newsletter and other content that we offer there. So, if you can, please support us there, we very, very much appreciate it and it helps make the show sustainable and the episodes themselves free to everybody.Nima: “Why We Need Inclusive Nationalism,” the journal Democracy declares. “Inclusion is patriotism of the...

02 Feb

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Citations Needed | February 2, 2022 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-153-crime-stoppers-americas-most-wanted-and-rise-of-vigilante-tv-news[/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: Happy new year everyone, welcome to 2022. We are back with new full-length episodes after our holiday break. We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday despite the ongoing global pandemic, but hey, we are here, the podcast is going, and we are so thrilled to be back. Of course 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, you can always support us there. We have special little Patreon-only News Briefs, newsletters, AMAs, live shows, all kinds of goodies for people who help is out here so if you can, if you listen to the show and you like it and you haven’t so far, please if you can...

26 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 26, 2022 | TranscriptA demonstration in Spokane, WA. (Young Kwak)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/live-interview-police-defunding-that-never-was-and-abolitionism-as-a-long-term-social-project[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Hello everyone. 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: Happy New Year and thank you, everyone, for joining us for yet another live Citations Needed interview. Of course you can follow the show if you don’t already on the Twitter machine @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and you can also become a supporter or advocate for others to become supporters of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. You don’t actually have to advocate but thanks for all your help, it is so incredibly appreciated, we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: We need a multi-level marketing element so people become evangelical.Nima: Yeah exactly.Adam: 10 percent off your next —Nima: We need a pyramid scheme, I think, you know.Adam: When you become a supporter you get access to over a hundred News Briefs, extensive show notes for every episode, our newsletter, and more fun...

19 Jan

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Citations Needed | January 19, 2022 | TranscriptCast and crew members film the 2019 Hallmark movie Holiday for Heroes in Connecticut. (The Day / Dana Jensen)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/a-very-special-news-brief-hallmarks-anti-labor-churn-a-follow-up-conversation[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: We are excited about our News Brief today because it is a direct follow up to our most recent full-length episode on Hallmark Christmas movies. When we posted that show on December 15, 2021, we were contacted by a listener who, Adam, had an experience all their own with the Hallmark cinematic universe.Adam: Yeah, so they’re a union screenwriter now. Prior to that, though, they were trying to, when they were working in the industry, they had gone deep within the sort of pitch process with Hallmark, they did not actually make a Hallmark movie to be clear, this is not someone high up in Hallmark, but it is someone very familiar with the process who had a bunch of rather amusing internal documents, including content guidelines and various emails about how the process works, and we thought it...

15 Dec

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Citations Needed | December 15, 2021 | TranscriptEntertaining Christmas (2018)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-152-hallmark-christmas-movies-and-the-cozy-conservative-nostalgia-machine[/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: And as always, please, if you can, and listen carefully because this is a big qualifier, if you can, please support us on Patreon. We really really appreciate it, it helps keep the show sustainable, and helps keep the episodes themselves free. There’s little goodies there AMAs, newsletters, little mini episodes we do just for patrons, and if you can’t afford it, again, steal it, if you can afford it, if you have the means of doing so, please do support it that therefore helps everyone else keep it afloat. So we’re very grateful for those who support us.Nima:...

08 Dec

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Citations Needed | December 8, 2021 | TranscriptFormer president Donald Trump with Reagan-appointed health policy adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci in April of 2020. (AP file / Alex Brandon)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/how-economic-jargon-and-cliches-make-cruel-anti-poor-policies-sound-sterile-and-science-y-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: 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 do not read ads on the show, we do not have corporate sponsors, and we are 100 percent listener funded.Adam: Yes, and as always, please, if you can, rate and subscribe to us and support us on Patreon. We appreciate all the support there, it helps keep the episodes themselves free. We have AMA’s, little mini episodes, newsletter, and other little goodies, things for our patrons there, and if you can swing it, if you’ve got the coinage, you got the scratch, if you’ve got a little...