
Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, PR, and the history of bullshit hosted by Nima Shirazi (contributor: Al Jazeera, The Narrative Initiative; editor: Muftah) and Adam Johnson (contributor: FAIR, AlterNet, Los Angeles Times).
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Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam
Episode 02 : The North Korea Memory Hole
Episode 64: Mike Rowe’s Koch-Backed Working Man Affectation
Episode 04: The Root of All Evil
News Brief: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points
Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?
Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry
News Brief: On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS
News Brief: Let's Relitigate the Sh*t Out of 2016 -- with Thomas Frank
Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0
Episode 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy
Episode 10: Ableism and the Ethics of Calling Trump “Crazy”
Episode 69: The Rise of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend
Episode 12: The New Atheists, Celebrity Crusaders For Empire
Episode 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience
Ep. 70: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part I)
Episode 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism
Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past
Episode 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC, Part II -- A Rebuttal
Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
Episode 57: A Matter of Survival - Trivializing Trans Rights as a Boutique “Identity” Issue
Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History
Episode 116: The Pro-Gentrification Aspirationalism of HGTV's House-Flipping Shows
Episode 51: How 'The West Wing' Poisoned the Liberal Mind
Episode 56: How The Media Learned to Worry About War Without Ever Opposing It
Episode 19: Lotteryism Part I -- How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning'
Episode 112: How "Polarization" Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing
Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color
Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization
Episode 68 - A New Gun Control Debate: Dismantling Our Racist 'Lock 'Em Up' Approach
Episode 65: How Empire Uses ‘Feminist’ Branding to Sell War and Occupation
Episode 59 - National Pastimes: Mindless Militarism in American Sports
Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire
Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War
Episode 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of “Electability”
Episode 74: Liberal Gandhi Fetishism and the Problem with Pop Notions of 'Violence'
News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'
Episode 06: The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy
Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
Episode 52: Attacks on Affirmative Action and the Commodification of Diversity
Episode 71: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part II)
Episode 18: Fake News Panic and the Silencing of Dissident Media
Episode 14: The Iran Deal Protection Racket
Episode 20: Lotteryism, Part II -- A Most Dangerous Game: How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts
Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)
Episode 73: Western Media’s Narrow, Colonial Definition of "Corruption"
News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content
News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment
Episode 72 - John Stossel: Libertarian Billionaires' Inside Man
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