
Citations Needed
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson · Citations Needed
Show overview
Citations Needed has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 383 episodes, alongside 5 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 370 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 9th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 40 min and 1h 13m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year.
From the publisher
Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
Latest Episodes
View all 383 episodesEp 242 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 2: US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force
Ep 241 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'
News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide
News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine
Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other
News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support
News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel
Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics
News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times
Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction
Live Show: 'How to Sell a Genocide' Book Talk at The Word Is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY
News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor
News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope
Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle
Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off

News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'
EIn this News Brief we examine CNN, the Atlantic, Washington Post and NYT's blatant 'human shields' double standard as reports emerge of US troops hiding from Iranian attacks in civilian infrastructure.

News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War
EIn this News Brief, we discuss a recent poll showing 70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about the nature of Iran's "nuclear program"—including 1 in 4 who think Iran currently possesses a nuclear weapon, and detail how decades of sleazy media innuendo and fabrications got us to this point.

"Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates
EIn this episode, we explore how arbitrary—often unilateral—sanctions against Enemy States are given the halo of international legal legitimacy with a combination of lies, slippery language and brainless court stenography. With guest Maryam Jamshidi, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law.

News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago
EIn this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous neoliberal privatization efforts, and how big donor and media backlash against "woke "academics and anti-Gaza genocide protestors is fueling the possible end of academic independence as we know it.

Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News
EIn this episode, we examine our political class' TikTok neurosis, how Gaza fueled its sell to US and Israeli military contractors, and the long history of elite panics around unsanctioned information flows. With guest Omar Zahzah.