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Thank you as always for your support making this show possible. We are extremely grateful.
We will be holding our next one-hour live audio and text AMA Thursday, April 22 at 10pm ET / 7pm PT. So save the date, postpone your other Zoom calls, and prep your quest...
"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us.
For decades, the ...
2021-04-14 15:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines.
In this Patron News Brief, we discuss Chuck Lorre's new three camera sitcom United States of Al and the three acceptable Muslim characters: terrorists, victims and––as CBS carefully crafts for Thursday primetime viewing––the Trustworthy Native Informant.
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In this Patron-only News Brief we discuss The Washington Post editorial board's disinformation about election fraud in Bolivia and detail its 70 year history of covering for, supporting, and trafficking in racist pathologizing to justify US meddling in Latin America.
2021-03-26 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we catch up with Austin activists Seneca Savoie and Chris Harris as they fight far right demagoguery, rich liberal NIMBY fence-sitting, and stigmatizing local media coverage of Travis County's unhoused population.
2021-03-24 15:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
"It’s Time for a Domestic Terrorism Law," blares a Washington Monthly headline. "2021-03-10 15:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post
On this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of people's relationship with government into our cultural understanding of taxation, public spending a...
2021-03-03 15:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post
"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to Amazon Employees About the Coronavirus. Every Smart Business Leader Ne...
2021-02-17 15:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello, dearest patrons!
Here is the latest newsletter with some recent articles we've been enjoying. Stay tuned for a new episode coming your way tomorrow and, as always, endless thanks and gratitude for your continued support of Citations Needed.
- Nima, Julianne, Florence, ...
2021-02-16 20:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we discuss how American media's lack of coverage and general. indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice Daniels, is an activist currently incarcerated in Illinois state prison in Joliet, IL.
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"Withholding," "misusing," "used to subsidized" - in this Patreon News Brief, we break down the legal and linguistic contortions required to make sure rich people are never accused of "stealing."
“We need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics,” declares presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “AOC Kills Jobs Middle America Would Love to Have,” proclaims The Washington Examiner. Amy Klobuchar insists she’s a ...
2021-02-03 16:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief we break down L'Affaire GameStop and the CNBC set's goofy, reverse-engineered moral justifications for being outraged by #GME. With guest Jacob Silverman of The New Republic.
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2021-01-28 15:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
“The COVID-19 vaccine is ripe for the blackmarket,” warns an NBC News opinion piece. “Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead,” reports Reuters. “Hackers ‘try to steal COVID vaccine secrets in intellectual property war,’” blares a G...
2021-01-27 16:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post
"Biden Calls For Hope And Healing In Speech," NPR reports. "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for return to Sept. 11 unity," writes The Chicago Tribune. Following the 2014 Ferguson protests, a CNN headline read, "Obama: Now is the time for peace, healing." "Filmmaker K...
2021-01-20 16:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Following mob violence at the US capitol building, we breakdown how, once again, American media would rather ignore homegrown currents of white supremacist vigilantism and their buddy buddy relationship with law enforcement and focus instead on how an anomalous President Trump makes us like those...
2021-01-07 07:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief we examine the curious phrase "must pass bill," which almost always applies to mindlessly bloating the US military budget.
2021-01-04 02:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief, we review the holiday season's biggest (and only?) major release, Wonder Woman, and breakdown its bizarre, half assed anti-Muslim racism.
2020-12-29 21:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Hope your holidays are going well as they can. Once again, thank you for your support.
In addition to this fortnight's newsletter (below), we have complied a reading list of all the books written by our guests over the years if you're so inclined.
"Sen. Mark Warner said progressives' calls to 'defund the police' were in part to blame for Democratic losses in the House in a cycle when the party was expected to gain seats," The Hill tells us. "How ’defund the police' sabotaged Democrats on Election Day," Clarence Page of the C...
2020-12-16 17:22:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second installment of our scoldy, buzz kill, two-part episode on Obama-era media failures we should be on the look out for as the Biden administration takes office. On this episode, we examine five more tropes that, sadly, are already being resurrected.
Our guest is Roberto Lova...
2020-12-09 18:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Thank you so much as always for your continued support. We really really are very appreciative.
Here is this fortnight's newsletter. Hope you enjoy!
-- Florence, Adam, Julianne, Nima, and Marco
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2020-12-08 20:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In light of John Kerry's new "national security" climate role, we follow up on Episode 122 by reading policy papers published by John Kerry's think tank. Hint: they want more money for the Pentagon, ICE, and Border Patrol.
President-elect Joe Biden has promised what he calls a return to "decency" and "unity," and American media has broadly characterized his victory over Donald Trump as, in the words of New York Times columnist Charles Blow, "The Third Term of the Obama Presidency." Many of the same holdove...
2020-12-02 17:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post
A CNN headline from this past summer read: “Mental health during coronavirus: Tips for processing your feelings.” Psychology Today gave us an article on “Coping With Loneliness During a Pandemic,” while the Washington Post presents, “A guide to taking care of ...
2020-11-25 19:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we talk with journalist Ashoka Jegroo about Giuliani's long history of racism, white liberal New Yorkers providing cover for his carceral sociopathy because they liked the results, and the pathetic, inevitable final chapter of the former New York mayor.
You can find a fu...
2020-11-20 19:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post
"Joe Biden Calls For ‘Immediate, Full And Transparent Investigation’ Into Jacob Blake Shooting," Forbes reports. "Obama Fraud Task Force Takes on the Big Banks," Bloomberg News proclaims. "Democratic lawmakers call for vote on bill to study reparations," announces CNN.
In this Sight Unseen film review, we recap the ideological currents and industry backers of J.D. Vance's White Trash Whisperer shtick and how it blames everyone for Appalachian poverty but corporate America and Republicans.
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Tom Sexton and Tarence Ray are ...
2020-11-11 16:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Thanks as always for your support and for those that showed up to the Election Night Discord hang. It was a lot of fun!
-- Florence, Marco, Julianne, Adam, and Nima
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