Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
All Episodes
4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Gaza Protesters—And Why They’re Bogus
August 17, 2024 · 29min
Ep 207: US-Backed Killing of Journalists in Gaza and the Limits of "Freedom of the Press" Sloganeering
August 14, 2024 · 1hr 32min
News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills
August 7, 2024 · 29min
News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot
August 2, 2024 · 21min
Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole
July 31, 2024 · 1hr 04min
Live Show 7/16/24: Paris, Power and Olympic Class War with Jules Boykoff
July 24, 2024 · 51min
The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers
July 10, 2024 · 56min
The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part I) - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto the Public
July 3, 2024 · 1hr 03min
News Brief: Unions, Gaza, and Labor's Checkered Relationship With US Militarism
June 19, 2024 · 44min
Live Show: Student Organizers Breakdown Media Distortions Over Gaza College Encampments
June 12, 2024 · 50min
Ep 203: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part II: How Corporate Think Tanks Function as Influence Laundromats
June 5, 2024 · 1hr 09min
Ep 202: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part I: Democrats and the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry
May 29, 2024 · 1hr 00min
Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling
May 15, 2024 · 1hr 19min
News Brief: Axios, NYT Help White House Obscure Their Role in Rafah Invasion
May 8, 2024 · 23min
News Brief: Campus Anti-Genocide Protests and the Weaponization of Squishy, Bad Faith "Safety" Rhetoric
April 27, 2024 · 33min
Episode 200 - The Rise of the War on Drugs 2.0: This Time It's Different, We Promise
March 27, 2024 · 1hr 01min
Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism
March 20, 2024 · 1hr 41min
Episode 198: How The Atlantic Magazine Helps Sell Austerity and War to Middlebrow Liberals
March 13, 2024 · 1hr 04min
News Brief: Media, Billionaires' Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court
March 6, 2024 · 24min
Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
February 28, 2024 · 59min
News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"
February 21, 2024 · 40min
Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution
February 7, 2024 · 1hr 19min
Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media’s Softball Treatment of ‘Effective Altruism’
January 31, 2024 · 1hr 11min
News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide
January 26, 2024 · 18min
Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
January 24, 2024 · 1hr 20min
Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
January 24, 2024 · 02min
News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza
January 19, 2024 · 57min
News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
December 14, 2023 · 40min
Episode 194: The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security
December 6, 2023 · 1hr 13min
News Brief: Media Adopts Israel's Simplistic 'Hunt for Hamas' Narrative, Providing Cover For Ethnic Cleansing
November 21, 2023 · 35min
