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Citations Needed

Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

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389 episodes

  1. Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ben Shapiro, Sex-Pest Actor Comebacks, and the New Elevated Right-Wing Cinema 1:15:10
  2. Live Show Beg-A-Thon: Wednesday Oct 21 - Promo! 2:38
  3. Ep 245: The Authenticity Affect (Part III) - Left Politics as Effete, College Kid Artifice 1:20:11
  4. News Brief: 2028, Israel's Progressive Rebrand and the Risk of "Genocide" as Rhetorical Box Check 30:07
  5. Ep 244: The Authenticity Affect (Part II) - The Dopey, Power-Flattering, Media-Created "Maverick" Politician 1:08:12
  6. Ep 243: The Authenticity Affect (Part I) — Whistlestop Tours, Smarm, and the Art of Channeling 'Folk' 1:26:21
  7. Ep 242 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 2: US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force 1:16:35
  8. Ep 241 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future' 1:28:30
  9. News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide 41:16
  10. News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine 28:35
  11. Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other 1:34:27
  12. News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support 38:12
  13. News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel 42:14
  14. Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics 1:20:38
  15. News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times 40:29
  16. Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction 1:30:33
  17. Live Show: 'How to Sell a Genocide' Book Talk at The Word Is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY 1:03:50
  18. News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor 47:54
  19. News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope 51:25
  20. Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle 1:21:51
  21. Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off 1:06:08
  22. News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields' 17:55
  23. News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War 34:41
  24. "Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates 1:22:12
  25. News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago 45:54
  26. Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News 1:13:49
  27. News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism 39:34
  28. Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy 1:24:28
  29. News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis 43:18
  30. News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian 25:11
  31. News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota 27:42
  32. Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center 1:29:03
  33. News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy 44:48
  34. Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms 1:17:44
  35. Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour 1:41:11
  36. Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism 54:40
  37. News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value 22:49
  38. News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock 31:29
  39. News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028 29:50
  40. Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo! 2:06
  41. Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport 1:14:00
  42. Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise 1:24:32
  43. News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition 40:14
  44. Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II) 1:33:52
  45. Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I) 1:08:20
  46. Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes' 1:04:21
  47. Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage 1:11:52
  48. News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani 38:24
  49. News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza 29:01
  50. News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days 32:09