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

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

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

In this news brief episode of Citations Needed, Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson discuss the media's coverage of the genocide in Gaza, particularly focusing on how major media outlets downplay the severity of the situation by highlighting pre-existing health conditions of Gazan victims, thereby obscuring Israeli responsib...

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

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

Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'

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

News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani

News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza

News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Day

News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran

Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism

Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves

Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism

News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing

News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform

Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels

Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class

Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes

News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents