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2024-12-02 15:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post
"Salvadoran Ties Bloodshed To a 'Culture of Violence'", reported The New York Times in 1981. "The violence in Lebanon is casual, random, and probably addicting," stated the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in 1985. "Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims," wrote long-time New Republic publisher and editor-in-chief Marty Peretz in 2010.
There’s a recurring theme within media coverage of subjugated people in the US and around the world: they’re...
2024-11-20 16:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we detail the usual scapegoats for party, pundit, and press failure to stem the tide of ascendant fascism.
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Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse
Adam Johnson | November 8, 2024 | In These Times
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2024-11-06 03:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon subscribers! Tune into the Citations Needed election night livestream on our YouTube channel, tonight at 10:30 pm ET!
Before we get to today's episode, here's a little reminder that we'll be doing an Election Night livestream here on Patreon next Tuesday evening, Nov. 5, at 10:30 PM ET.
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2024-10-30 14:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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"An inflation conspiracy theory is infecting the Democratic Party," The Washington Post frets. "'Greedflation' is a nonsense idea," The Economist insists. "Harris' plan to stop price gouging could create more problems than it solves," CNN warns.
Over the last few years, as the prices of groceries, cars, and other necessities have risen, often dramatically, leading news outlets and influential pundits have claimed that these rising prices are simply a matter o...
2024-10-16 13:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we discuss the Democratic nominee's overt embrace of conservative policy and politicians and the widespread, unchecked assumption that tracking right has zero electoral trade-offs.
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2024-10-09 17:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post
"Calls for Transforming Police Run Into Realities of Governing in Minnesota," cautioned The New York Times in 2020. "Democrats Face Pressure on Crime From a New Front: Their Base," claimed the paper of record again, in 2022. "How Biden’s recent actions on immigration could address a major issue voters have with him," announced PBS NewsHour, republishing the Associated Press, in 2024.
There’s an increasingly common ethos in Democratic poli...
2024-10-02 13:47:13 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patreon-only News Brief, we detail last week's manufactured controversy targeting Congress' lone Palestinian-American, and what it says about US media's editorial standards when attacking those challenging NatSec orthodoxy.
We are joined by Prem Thakker of Zeteo News.
2024-09-30 18:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Season 8 of Citations Needed. Thank you so much for supporting the show.
“Citizens to Aid Police in New Program,” reported the Los Angeles Times in 1975. “Community Policing: Law Enforcement Returns to Its Roots,” declared the Chicago Tribune in 1994. “ 2024-09-25 14:13:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we examine rightwing media's shameful incitement campaign against Haitian migrants and J.D. Vance's smarmy, grating rhetorical tactic of blaming nameless "constituents" for his stoking a hate mob.
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2024-09-19 00:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us at youtube.com/@citationsneeded for a recap of the first (?) Presidential debate on Sept 10 at 11pm ET
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2024-09-09 14:32:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief, we examine recent "foreign disinformation" disclosures by the US government and sort out what's true, what's lacking context, and what's outright libelous.
2024-09-07 00:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostJoin us here: Citations Needed LIVE
2024-08-21 19:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostIn 1 hour and 30 mins we will be discussing DNC protests, Gaza emergency doctors pleading with Harris to break from Biden, and the campaign PR and vibing their way past unrest over the ongoing genocide.
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2024-08-21 17:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we recap the ready-made talking points used to smear DNC Gaza protests, detail why they don't add up, and discuss how the best way to avoid the appearance of party infighting is for Vice President Harris and Democrats to Simply Do The Right Thing.
This News Brief is based on an article published today in In These Times.
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"Western World Observes Press Freedom Day," gloated the United Press International newswire back in 1961. "Trump v. CNN: lawsuit becomes test case on press freedom," declared The Guardian in November 2018. "The 10 Best and Worst Countries for Press Freedom," says US News and World report in 2022.
For decades, elite US media and government institutions have touted the sacred notion of freedom of the press. Our media, so we’re told, have the legally enshrined latitude ...
On this News Brief, we're joined again by public health journalist Zach Siegel to discuss his new report, Fentanyl Exposure: Myths, Misconceptions, and the Media, and how ongoing police propaganda harms real and necessary responses to the opioid crisis in the United States.
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In this public News Brief we analyze the new Democratic nominee's "shift in tone" and whether more sophisticated Empathy-Speak and continued appeals to bogus "ceasefire negotiations" signifies a meaningful break from Biden.
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Israel's Reckless Escalations Demand We Honestly Scrutinize Kamala Harris' Gaza ...
2024-08-02 12:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"Legalize and Regulate Sports Betting," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wrote in The New York Times in 2014. "NFL Betting Promos & Bonuses | Top NFL Betting Sites & Offers for Week 9 NFL Odds & More," USA Today offered readers in 2023. "Bookmakers break down NBA, NHL playoffs, big bets," reads a June 2024 Fox Sports headline.
It's not an exaggeration to state that, since its legalization in 2018, sports betting and other forms of sports gambling have...
2024-07-31 14:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We're just two days away from the Opening Ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. For months, the city of Paris has been “preparing” for this year’s event by ramping up policing, evicting homeless people from the encampments they’ve been living in, and even banning food distribution in certain regions, according to the French collective Le Revers De La Medaille, which translates to “The Other Side of the Medal" in English.
But you wouldn't know all...
2024-07-24 14:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we discuss the phony pearl-clutching over "heated" anti-Trump messaging and Team Biden's attempt to run out the clock before the DNC.
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For a full transcript of this episode, go here. In the meantime, you can find transcripts of past episodes, live show...
2024-07-17 18:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostWe're live talking media and Olympics with Jules Boykoff. Join here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgemLnmLPM
2024-07-17 02:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember, folks, we're going live on YouTube at 10 PM ET tonight with friend of the show Jules Boykoff to discuss the Olympics, the media and the relentless commercialization, police crackdowns, and class warfare that high-profile, global sporting events bring wherever they go.
We're talking to Jules right before he heads to Paris himself to cover the Games. Tune in!
At 10 PM ET tonight, we'll go liv...
2024-07-16 23:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
TOMORROW, 7/16, at 10 PM ET! Join us as we stream live on YouTube with Jules Boykoff, author of What Are The Olympics For? and professor of political science at Pacific University, to talk media and the forthcoming 2024 (and previous) Olympics.
More info to come!
2024-07-15 17:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief, Nima and Adam discuss the sustained, somewhat bizarre anti-Biden turn in the media and what it says about a venal, broken Democratic party leadership.
2024-07-11 00:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
"How Railroaders Are Killed; Train Crews Grow Careless," read a 1906 syndicated article. "There is a kind of personality who is accident-prone," reported the Kansas City Star in 1944. Amazon's safety programs are "designed to keep its nearly one million warehouse workers worldwide fit and limber," The Seattle Times claimed in 2021.
For well over a century, it’s been standard practice for corporations, and the media more generally– echoing these "inf...
2024-07-10 15:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post