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

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Recastable Episodes (292)

1. Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam July 12, 2017
2. Episode 02 : The North Korea Memory Hole July 19, 2017
3. Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0 July 21, 2017
4. Episode 04: The Root of All Evil July 26, 2017
5. Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History Aug. 2, 2017
6. News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea Aug. 9, 2017
7. Episode 06: The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy Aug. 9, 2017
8. News Brief: Nazis, the ACLU & the Moral Limits of 'Free Speech' Aug. 15, 2017
9. Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization Aug. 23, 2017
10. News Brief: Harvey, Climate Change and Snitch Reporters Sept. 3, 2017
11. Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex Sept. 6, 2017
12. Episode 09: Liberal Media Throws #J20 Activists Under the Bus Sept. 13, 2017
13. Episode 10: Ableism and the Ethics of Calling Trump “Crazy” Sept. 20, 2017
14. Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part I -- Single Payer Propaganda War Sept. 27, 2017
15. Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part II -- Racist Media as Barrier to Govt Spending Oct. 4, 2017
16. Episode 12: The New Atheists, Celebrity Crusaders For Empire Oct. 11, 2017
17. Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire Oct. 25, 2017
18. Episode 14: The Iran Deal Protection Racket Nov. 1, 2017
19. Episode 15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch Nov. 8, 2017
20. Episode 16: Editorial Boards––Protectors of Establishment Ideology Nov. 15, 2017
21. News Brief: #J20 Trial Update and the Political Definitions of 'Violence' Nov. 22, 2017
22. Episode 17: Whitewashing America's Role in Yemen Nov. 29, 2017
23. Episode 18: Fake News Panic and the Silencing of Dissident Media Dec. 6, 2017
24. Episode 19: Lotteryism Part I -- How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning' Dec. 13, 2017
25. Episode 20: Lotteryism, Part II -- A Most Dangerous Game: How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts Dec. 20, 2017
26. Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color Jan. 3, 2018
27. Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past Jan. 10, 2018
28. Episode 23: The Media's Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn Jan. 17, 2018
29. News Brief: Why the Media Should Stop Calling it a "Government Shutdown" Jan. 24, 2018
30. Episode 24: Highlighting Alternative Media - The Moral Limits of Dunking on Thomas Friedman Jan. 24, 2018
31. Episode 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of ‘Democracy’ Jan. 31, 2018
32. Episode 26: The 'Welfare' Dog-Whistle Feb. 7, 2018
33. Episode 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience Feb. 14, 2018
34. News Brief: How to Respond to Knee-Jerk Bigotry on Live TV Feb. 21, 2018
35. Episode 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I) Feb. 28, 2018
36. Episode 29: The Asymptotic ‘Two State Solution’ (Part II) March 7, 2018
37. Episode 30: Liberal Media’s Myopic Military Worship March 14, 2018
38. Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War March 21, 2018
39. Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids! March 28, 2018
40. Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican April 11, 2018
41. Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC? April 18, 2018
42. Episode 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left April 25, 2018
43. Episode 36: Maplewashing — Looking Behind Canada’s Progressive Veneer May 9, 2018
44. Episode 37: Black Lives Matter, Dreamers, and the Problem of 'The Perfect Victim' May 16, 2018
45. Episode 38: The Media's Bogus Generation Obsession May 23, 2018
46. Episode 39: From Cradle to Courtroom: How The Media Stacks the Deck Against “Defendants” June 6, 2018
47. Episode 40: The Civility Fetish June 13, 2018
48. Episode 41: The Moral Poverty of Capitalist Healthcare Framing June 20, 2018
49. Episode 42: 'Populism' - The Media’s Favorite Catch-All Smear for the Left June 27, 2018
50. Episode 43: RussiaGate Year 3 -- How Liberals' Martial Posture Harms the Left July 11, 2018
51. Episode 44: RussiaGate, Year 3 - Using the Nonstop Specter of Russia to Tarnish Black Activists July 18, 2018
52. Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media July 25, 2018
53. Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa Aug. 1, 2018
54. Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence Aug. 8, 2018
55. News Brief: Don't Let the Media Erase McCain's Far Right Legacy Aug. 26, 2018
56. Episode 48: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part I) Sept. 5, 2018
57. Episode 49: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part II) Sept. 12, 2018
58. Episode 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved Socialism Sept. 19, 2018
59. Episode 51: How 'The West Wing' Poisoned the Liberal Mind Sept. 26, 2018
60. Episode 52: Attacks on Affirmative Action and the Commodification of Diversity Oct. 3, 2018
61. Episode 53: The Increasingly Dull Edge of 'Hypocrisy' Takedowns Oct. 10, 2018
62. Episode 54: Local 'Crime' Reporting as Police Stenography Oct. 17, 2018
63. Episode 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism Oct. 31, 2018
64. Episode 56: How The Media Learned to Worry About War Without Ever Opposing It Nov. 7, 2018
65. Episode 57: A Matter of Survival - Trivializing Trans Rights as a Boutique “Identity” Issue Nov. 14, 2018
66. News Brief: Consumer Society and the Curation of Culture Nov. 21, 2018
67. Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry Nov. 28, 2018
68. Episode 59: National Pastimes: Mindless Militarism in American Sports Dec. 5, 2018
69. Episode 60: Kitten Rescues, Lip-Syncing & Christmas Traffic Stops - Your Guide to Clickbait Copaganda Dec. 12, 2018
70. Episode 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC, Part II -- A Rebuttal Jan. 9, 2019
71. Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives Jan. 16, 2019
72. Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar Jan. 23, 2019
73. Episode 64: Mike Rowe’s Koch-Backed Working Man Affectation Jan. 30, 2019
74. Episode 65: How Empire Uses ‘Feminist’ Branding to Sell War and Occupation Feb. 6, 2019
75. Episode 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy Feb. 20, 2019
76. Episode 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of “Electability” Feb. 27, 2019
77. News Brief: Let's Relitigate the Sh*t Out of 2016 -- with Thomas Frank Feb. 28, 2019
78. Episode 68 - A New Gun Control Debate: Dismantling Our Racist 'Lock 'Em Up' Approach March 6, 2019
79. Episode 69: The Rise of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend March 13, 2019
80. Episode 70: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part I) March 20, 2019
81. Episode 71: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part II) April 3, 2019
82. Episode 72: John Stossel: Libertarian Billionaires' Inside Man April 10, 2019
83. Episode 73: Western Media’s Narrow, Colonial Definition of "Corruption" April 17, 2019
84. Episode 74: Liberal Gandhi Fetishism and the Problem with Pop Notions of 'Violence' April 24, 2019
85. Episode 75: The Trouble with 'Florida Man' May 1, 2019
86. News Brief: The #Bronx120 and Preet Bharara's Woke Rebranding May 9, 2019
87. Episode 76: The Anti-War Rebranding of Rhodes and Power and the Moral Hazard of Faux Mea Culpas May 22, 2019
88. Episode 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism May 29, 2019
89. Episode 78: The Militarization of U.S. Media's Drug Coverage June 5, 2019
90. Episode 79: How 'Neutral' 'Experts' Took Over Trump's Iran Policy June 12, 2019
91. Episode 80: Animal Rights as Media and Pop Culture Punchline June 19, 2019
92. Episode 81: How US Media Pits Labor and Climate Activists Against One Other July 3, 2019
93. Episode 82: 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity July 10, 2019
94. Episode 83: The Unchecked Conservative Ideology of US Media's 'Fact-Check' Verticals July 17, 2019
95. Episode 84: How Claims of “Sowing Discord” Are Used to Silence Criticism of Power July 24, 2019
96. Episode 85: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part I) - The Infestation Rhetoric of Local News Sept. 4, 2019
97. Episode 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News Sept. 11, 2019
98. Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain Sept. 18, 2019
99. News Brief: Jon Schwarz on Samantha Power's Whitewashing Memoir Sept. 23, 2019
100. Episode 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech" Sept. 25, 2019
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