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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 18h

In this News Brief, "IDF-Funding Mega-Billionaire Buys CBS News, Installs Bari Weiss to Enforce Ideological Discipline," we discuss the Ellisons' purchase of Paramount and the TikTok algorithm, their potential purchase of CNN, and how this will invariably incite more violence against Palestinians.

News Brief: IDF-Funding Mega-Billionaire Buys CBS News, Installs Bari Weiss to Enforce Ideological Discipline | Citations Needed

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us one week from today for a Beg-A-Thon live show @ 9:30ET/8:30CT! We will be joined by Justin Feldman
to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 7d

In Ep 229, "Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport" we detail the rise of detached "who's winning/who's losing" political analysis that reduces high stakes life and death issues to fodder for ESPN-type navel-gazing.

With guest @jackmirkinson.bsky.social

Episode 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport

In this episode we detail the rise of detached

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back to saying I’m Jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 8d

for those unaware, Mike Rowe is a notorious anti-union shithead. listen to the extremely good @citationspod.bsky.social about him: citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-64-m...

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Trofe @jtrofe.com · 14d

This will pair well with three Angela Collier video about billionaires pretending to be physicists

Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 14d

In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 14d

with guest @ironicprofessor.bsky.social!

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 14d

In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is a very good podcast

Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 27

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

News Brief: NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition

In this News Brief, we detail recent

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 27

with guest @reallandsend.bsky.social!

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 27

In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured media outlets to make (some more willing than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy.

News Brief: NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition

In this News Brief, we detail recent

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Ira @consumergrade.bsky.social · Aug 13

Citations Needed has done an extraordinary job covering the media's treatment of the ongoing genocide in Gaza throughout this atrocity, but this episode and the one before are particularly important and reach for something fundamental in the nature of the American media.

Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 13

In Ep 227, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)" we detail US media's trend of reporting on Israeli war crimes months after Palestinian reporters already did and the broader regime of dehumanization targeting Palestinian media workers

Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 13

with guest Kaleem Hawa.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 13

In Ep 227, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)" we detail US media's trend of reporting on Israeli war crimes months after Palestinian reporters already did and the broader regime of dehumanization targeting Palestinian media workers

Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Aug 6

In Ep 226, "The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)," we detail NYT & WSJ's incitement campaign against the UN in Jan 2024 and how it directly assisted Israel's starvation campaign.

w/ guest Moureen Kaki who joins us from Khan Yunis, Gaza

Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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c2yoshi @c2yoshi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh hey, yet another incredibly relevant @citationspod.bsky.social news brief

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · Jul 23

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro chides Zohran Mamdani for not condemning other people’s antisemitism:

“He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.”

Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn ‘blatantly antisemitic’ extremists

The Pennsylvania governor told JI: ‘When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there’

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Sylvia 👃Silverchypre era 👃 @asisherright.bsky.social · Jul 24

This podcast is hands down the best look into policy and media spin out there and this episode is no exception.

Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 23

In Ep 225, "How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'," we detail the popular media trope that providing direct social welfare to people who need it is somehow cheating, or playing the electoral game on God Mode.

with Janine Jackson of @fairmediawatch.bsky.social.

Episode 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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La Conquête du Panini @botsnack.bsky.social · Jul 23

@citationspod.bsky.social is so good.

That's it.

Just clear-eyed banger after banger.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 23

In Ep 225, "How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'," we detail the popular media trope that providing direct social welfare to people who need it is somehow cheating, or playing the electoral game on God Mode.

with Janine Jackson of @fairmediawatch.bsky.social.

Episode 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 17

There are of course exceptions but ethical and legit illegal activities are a small fraction of crypto’s manifest usage and they’re certainly not why crypto is so powerful (it’s selling and speculating on illegal securities)

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 16

With guest Timi Iwayemi of Revolving Door Project!

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 16

In Ep 224, "Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting' Public Outrage," we detail the classic PR gambit of corporations anticipating regulation, offering to "self-police," implementing token or superficial reforms, waiting for outrage to blow over, then going back to business a usual

Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting

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chirping bird @chrpngbrd.bsky.social · Jul 3

as always, there is an excellent @citationspod.bsky.social episode on this bullshit practice.

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Episode 157: How the “Culture Wars” Label Obscures and Trivializes Life-and-Death Political Issues

Citations Needed | March 9, 2022 | Transcript

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · Jul 2

The folks at @citationspod.bsky.social outline in vivid detail how Zohran Mamdani is being smeared by both the usual anti-Muslim racists *and* centrist Democrats for things he never said - an essential listen for anyone who cares about truth & justice.

News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature

Podcast Episode · Citations Needed · 07/01/2025 · 38m

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jul 1

In this News Brief, we break down recent bad faith attacks on Zohran Mamdani, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket, and the broader "antisemitism scandal" playbook to derail moderate social democratic policies and any meaningful criticism of Israel.

News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature

In this News Brief we break down recent bad faith attacks on the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket and the broader

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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · Jun 25

In this News Brief, "Mamdani's Decisive Win Shows Cynical 'Antisemitism' Attacks Falling Flat," we break down the last ditch smear campaign against Mamdani and how the playbook of Islamophobic innuendo, stoking sectarianism and crybullying is losing its juice.

News Brief: Mamdani's Decisive Win Shows Cynical 'Antisemitism' Attacks Falling Flat | Citations Needed

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