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 387 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 an hour to ninety 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 29 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 387 episodesEp 245: The Authenticity Affect (Part III) - Left Politics as Effete, College Kid Artifice
News Brief: 2028, Israel's Progressive Rebrand and the Risk of "Genocide" as Rhetorical Box Check
Ep 244: The Authenticity Affect (Part II) - The Dopey, Power-Flattering, Media-Created "Maverick" Politician
Ep 243: The Authenticity Affect (Part I) — Whistlestop Tours, Smarm, and the Art of Channeling 'Folk'
Ep 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.