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Citations Needed

Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

Items (464)

Ep 244: The Authenticity Affect (Part II) - The Dopey, Power-Flattering, Media-Created "Maverick" Politician
2026-09-30T14:27:49Z
Ep 243: The Authenticity Affect (Part I) — Whistle-stop Tours, Smarm and the Art of Channeling 'Folk'
2026-09-23T18:03:07Z
News Brief: Credulous, Sectarian Coverage of ‘How to Sell A Genocide’ Book Ban Proves Thesis of Book
2026-08-21T17:37:15Z
Episode 242: The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' (Part II) -- US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force
2026-08-19T15:12:50Z
Episode 241: The Disempowering Politics of ‘Inevitability’ (Part I) -- Data Centers and LLM as ‘The Future’
2026-08-12T17:39:34Z
News Brief: The Emerging Centrist Uncommitted Movement
2026-07-31T16:04:48Z
News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide
2026-07-29T18:57:57Z
News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel’s “Right to Exist” 1,001 Times vs. Only 6 For Palestine
2026-07-15T17:18:58Z
Episode 240: How the Media's "Burden," "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other
2026-07-08T19:26:05Z
News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support
2026-07-01T15:06:20Z
News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel
2026-06-24T16:50:14Z
Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of 'Affordability' Politics
2026-06-17T17:01:43Z
News Brief: US Media Invents Nonexistent "Democratic Divide" Over Israel
2026-06-13T00:50:24Z
News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—The New York Times
2026-05-27T21:28:31Z
Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction
2026-05-20T15:51:39Z
Live Show: How to Sell a Genocide Book Talk at The Word Is Change
2026-05-13T16:42:56Z
News Brief: 'Peak TV,' Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor
2026-05-06T18:01:22Z
News Brief: How the Right Invented—and Exploited—the "Liberal Media" Trope
2026-04-22T14:36:59Z
Episode 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle
2026-04-15T21:18:34Z
Episode 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted "Public-Private Partnership" Rip-Off
2026-04-08T17:54:28Z
News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of ‘Human Shields’
2026-04-01T20:04:57Z
News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Led to War
2026-03-26T21:58:30Z
Episode 235: 'Shadow Fleets,' Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates
2026-03-11T16:48:03Z
News Brief: What Does 'Progressive Foreign Policy' Mean in an Age of Genocide?
2026-02-25T20:32:08Z
News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago
2026-02-18T19:43:58Z
News Brief: NYT Rushes to Defend "Reformed" Police Depts From Liberal Anti-ICE Backlash
2026-02-11T19:29:24Z
Episode 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News
2026-02-04T15:03:40Z
News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism
2026-01-30T23:49:05Z
Episode 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy
2026-01-28T20:57:40Z
News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis
2026-01-22T01:18:25Z
News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian
2026-01-17T20:41:59Z
News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota
2026-01-07T21:33:01Z
News Brief: CNN Partners with Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
2025-12-12T17:40:15Z
Episode 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
2025-12-10T15:03:07Z
News Brief: The BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
2025-12-04T01:17:03Z
Episode 231: How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part II) — AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms
2025-11-26T18:51:08Z
Episode 230: How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part I) — Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour
2025-11-19T16:25:39Z
A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline
2025-10-31T15:01:17Z
News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd “Drug War” Pretext at Face Value
2025-10-29T15:51:06Z
News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock
2025-10-22T16:54:00Z
News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 & 2028
2025-10-13T18:28:14Z
News Brief: IDF-Funding Mega-Billionaire Buys CBS News, Installs Bari Weiss to Enforce Ideological Discipline
2025-10-08T13:07:25Z
Episode 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand It To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport
2025-10-01T16:41:14Z
Episode 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise
2025-09-24T19:18:26Z
News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition
2025-08-27T15:24:45Z
Episode 227: The Importance of Seriousness; or, Why Palestinians Can’t Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)
2025-08-13T20:19:57Z
Episode 226: The Importance of Seriousness; or, Why Palestinians Can’t Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)
2025-08-06T16:22:21Z
Episode 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as "Buying Votes"
2025-07-23T13:51:35Z
Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage
2025-07-16T15:52:28Z
News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufacture "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani
2025-07-01T22:56:59Z
News Brief: Mamdani's Decisive Win Shows Cynical 'Antisemitism' Attacks Falling Flat
2025-06-25T13:48:42Z
News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza
2025-06-19T19:23:56Z
News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Day
2025-06-18T00:03:52Z
News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel’s Unprovoked Attack on Iran
2025-06-14T19:30:12Z
Episode 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism
2025-06-11T13:59:33Z
Episode 222: The Empire Strikes First Part I — Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves
2025-06-04T14:50:16Z
News Brief: Jake Tapper's Belated Biden Scandal Book Tour is Peak Tapper Smarm
2025-05-30T21:31:41Z
Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism
2025-05-28T13:43:43Z
News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign his Own Ethnic Cleansing
2025-05-22T17:13:14Z
News Brief - Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform
2025-05-07T15:59:28Z
Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels
2025-04-30T18:01:16Z
Episode 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class
2025-04-23T17:54:30Z
Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes
2025-04-16T17:27:20Z
News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents
2025-04-02T15:32:58Z
Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
2025-03-26T18:36:48Z
News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working-Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance
2025-03-19T17:17:04Z
News Brief: Israel Kills Over 400 in 12 Hrs, Media Unsure if This Counts as Violating the 'Ceasefire'
2025-03-18T17:00:00Z
News Brief: The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil and the Phony 'Campus Safety' Panic
2025-03-12T21:52:30Z
Episode 216: Sunday Morning News Shows and the Problem With ‘Agenda Setting’ Court Stenography
2025-03-12T18:24:31Z
A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World
2025-03-05T14:16:03Z
News Brief: Musk Goes Full Alex Jones as Media Belatedly Mentions the Dreaded "I" Word
2025-02-14T21:08:54Z
News Brief: Silicon Valley Patronage, How To Subtly Drift Right, and the New Conservative Media Ecosystem
2025-02-12T15:51:58Z
News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "Cost-Cutting Effort"
2025-02-05T15:32:35Z
News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist
2025-01-29T17:05:23Z
News Brief: Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Became Too Big To Fail
2025-01-22T17:18:48Z
Episode 215: "Bipartisanship" as High-Minded Rhetorical Cover for Pushing Rightwing Policies
2025-01-15T16:06:43Z
News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squeamishness Over the "G" Word
2025-01-08T18:31:37Z
News Brief: The Atlantic, NYT, WaPo Meltdown Over Luigi Mangione's Online Popularity
2024-12-14T20:03:07Z
Ep 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern': How US Media Helped Distance Biden From the Gaza Genocide
2024-12-11T17:00:42Z
Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians
2024-12-04T15:39:08Z
Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy
2024-11-20T16:34:06Z
News Brief: Elite Media, Dems Blame 'Woke', 'Headwinds'—Everyone But Themselves— for Trump Win
2024-11-13T14:36:20Z
Episode 211: Bari Weiss, The 'University' of Austin, and the Silicon Valley-Funded Faux-Iconoclast Media Industry
2024-10-30T14:51:04Z
Episode 210: Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation" "Conspiracies"
2024-10-16T13:58:54Z
News Brief: Harris' Mid 2000s Neocon Re-Brand and Centrist Voters as Free Real Estate
2024-10-09T17:45:42Z
Episode 209: Popularism and the "Poll-Driven Democrat" as Cover for Conservative Policy Preferences
2024-10-02T13:47:13Z
News Brief: CNN's Failed Smear Campaign Against Rep. Rashida Tlaib w/ Prem Thakker
2024-09-30T18:44:49Z
Episode 208: How US Media Repackages Pro-Police Policies as "Reform"
2024-09-25T14:13:51Z
News Brief: Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes
2024-09-19T00:33:55Z
News Brief: NYT Launders US Govt Claim Iranian Crisis Actors Infiltrating Gaza Protesters
2024-09-07T00:10:08Z
4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Gaza Protesters—And Why They’re Bogus
2024-08-17T23:01:15Z
Episode 207: US-Backed Killing of Journalists in Gaza and the Limits of "Freedom of the Press" Sloganeering
2024-08-14T18:34:19Z
News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills
2024-08-07T15:42:47Z
News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot
2024-08-02T12:49:14Z
Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole
2024-07-31T14:59:56Z
Live Show: Paris, Power and Olympic Class War
2024-07-24T14:55:20Z
News Brief: Media Baselessly Pins Trump Shooting on Vague 'Heated Rhetoric,' Precious Dems Stop Campaigning
2024-07-17T18:34:35Z
News Brief: Centrist on Centrist Soft Media Coup Shakes up Democratic Nomination
2024-07-11T00:18:41Z
Episode 205: The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II) - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers
2024-07-10T15:29:20Z
Episode 204: The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part I) - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto the Public
2024-07-03T15:26:29Z
News Brief: Unions, Gaza, and Labor's Checkered Relationship With US Militarism
2024-06-19T15:21:43Z
Live Show: Student Organizers Breakdown Media Distortions Over Gaza College Encampments
2024-06-12T15:59:51Z
Episode 203: Ideological Shaping of the Possible (Part II) - How Corporate Think Tanks Function as Influence Laundromats
2024-06-05T19:33:08Z
Episode 202: Ideological Shaping of the Possible (Part I) - Democrats and the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry
2024-05-29T13:47:39Z
Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling
2024-05-15T16:01:10Z
News Brief: Axios, NYT Help White House Obscure Their Role in Rafah Invasion
2024-05-08T13:13:48Z
News Brief: Campus Anti-Genocide Protests and the Weaponization of Squishy, Bad-Faith "Safety" Rhetoric
2024-04-27T17:46:26Z
Episode 200: The Rise of the War on Drugs 2.0: This Time It's Different, We Promise
2024-03-27T14:24:05Z
Episde 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism
2024-03-20T15:21:48Z
Episode 198: The Destructive Elitism of 'The Atlantic' Magazine
2024-03-13T15:04:54Z
News Brief: Media, Billionaires Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court
2024-03-06T14:54:11Z
Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
2024-02-28T15:20:16Z
News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"
2024-02-21T15:37:15Z
Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution
2024-02-07T16:48:26Z
Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'
2024-01-31T15:50:14Z
News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide
2024-01-26T18:52:26Z
Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
2024-01-24T16:26:06Z
Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
2024-01-24T15:20:49Z
News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza
2024-01-17T19:37:55Z
News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
2023-12-13T19:57:22Z
Episode 194: The “Graying Population” Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security
2023-12-06T17:04:12Z
News Brief: Media Adopts Israel's Simplistic 'Hunt for Hamas' Narrative, Providing Cover For Ethnic Cleansing
2023-11-21T03:24:10Z
Episode 193: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part II)
2023-11-15T15:18:33Z
Episode 192: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part I)
2023-11-08T17:56:04Z
Episode 191: How Media's Use of 'The Economy' Flattens Class Conflict
2023-11-01T16:42:06Z
Live Show, 10/16: Gaza Siege and the Liberal Handwringing Industrial Complex
2023-10-19T15:11:40Z
News Brief: US Media, Washington Rush Head First into 9/11 2.0
2023-10-11T19:23:25Z
Episode 190: Why Media Insists the US is "Forced" to Commit Human Rights Abuses
2023-10-04T16:10:07Z
Episode 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex
2023-09-27T16:02:33Z
News Brief: GOP, Corporate Media Attempt to Manufacture Conflict Between Autoworkers and Climate
2023-09-20T13:52:17Z
Episode 188: How Capital Repackages Substandard Products for the Poor as "Increasing Access"
2023-09-13T16:21:04Z
News Brief: Trump and the Trump Clones' Fake 'Anti-War' Rhetoric
2023-09-01T19:11:44Z
Episode 187: Undercover Boss, Uber-Driving CEOs, and the "Empathetic Executive" Schtick
2023-08-02T16:39:15Z
Episode 186: Nativism in Media (Part III) - IMF, NAFTA and Global Inequality By Design
2023-07-26T16:44:10Z
Ep. 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) -  The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'
2023-07-19T16:13:55Z
Episode 184: Nativism in Media (Part I) — How Dehumanization and Militarization Manufactured a “Border Crisis”
2023-07-12T15:39:56Z
News Brief: As UPS Strike “Looms,” Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as “Threat” to “The Economy”
2023-07-05T14:30:07Z
News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc
2023-06-21T13:26:58Z
News Brief - "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s
2023-06-14T15:08:17Z
Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of "Creative," Academic, and Journalistic Labor
2023-05-31T14:03:14Z
A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-A-Thon: The Very Real Social Brain Rot of Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse
2023-05-24T14:39:35Z
Ep. 182: Hardhats vs Hippies and the Cold War Curation of the Conservative Union Guy Trope
2023-05-17T13:48:12Z
Episode 181: US Media's 5 Most Popular Revisionist Tropes About the Iraq and Vietnam Wars
2023-05-10T15:04:43Z
News Brief: US Media's Incitement Against Homeless Populations and Recent Vigilante Attacks
2023-05-07T01:18:18Z
Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories
2023-05-03T14:05:51Z
News Brief Live: Tucker Carlson's Transparent 'Contrarian Left' Co-Option Strategy
2023-04-28T18:53:53Z
News Brief: Media's Credulous "Labor Shortage" Reporting Helps Lay Groundwork For Repealing Child Labor Laws
2023-04-12T14:28:13Z
News Brief: How Brandon Johnson's Win Upends US Media's Patronizing, Simplistic "Crime" Narratives
2023-04-05T15:45:22Z
Episode 179: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries
2023-03-29T14:17:35Z
Episode 178: The Palliative Pop-History of American Social "Progress"
2023-03-22T16:15:09Z
Episode 177: Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them
2023-03-15T15:07:05Z
News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine
2023-03-01T16:24:06Z
News Brief: The Battle Over NYT's Lurid, Tabloid Coverage of 'Trans Issues'
2023-02-24T16:21:05Z
News Brief: How Newspapers Aided Genocide in California
2023-02-15T16:08:49Z
Ep 176: How the “Parental Rights” Rallying Cry Has Been a Rightwing Stalking Horse for Over 100 Years
2023-02-08T23:10:17Z
Ep. 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine
2023-02-01T17:50:18Z
Episode 174: Your Favorite 1990's "Very Special" Anti-Drug Episode Was Probably Funded by the US Government
2023-01-25T16:57:16Z
News Brief: 'Tough Love' Used to Justify Abusing Children and Surplus Black Population in Alabama
2023-01-18T16:23:56Z
Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals
2022-12-21T14:40:39Z
Ep. 172 - The Foundational Myth Machine: Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood
2022-12-14T15:45:50Z
News Brief: Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Help Discipline Rail Labor
2022-11-30T20:41:12Z
News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe
2022-11-24T00:13:16Z
Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse
2022-11-16T16:13:40Z
Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the ‘Neither Right Nor Left’ Guy
2022-11-09T15:35:54Z
Episode 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare
2022-11-02T14:53:38Z
News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis
2022-10-28T15:29:51Z
A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Politics of Star Trek + Pro Wrestling
2022-10-26T15:15:26Z
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2022-10-22T16:25:48Z
News Brief: DC Media's "Fare Evasion" Meltdown
2022-10-19T20:42:08Z
News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery
2022-10-05T17:07:57Z
Ep. 168: How Faux Folksy "Real World" Advice is Employed to Limit Political Possibility and Punch Left
2022-09-28T14:42:46Z
Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse
2022-09-21T14:18:50Z
A Very Special Royal News Brief: American Media Gushes Over Loser British Monarchy
2022-09-20T20:25:32Z
Ep. 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals
2022-09-14T14:31:10Z
News Brief - The “Split-Second Decision” Trope: Why Every Media Outlet Does the Exact Same Police Puff Piece on Shooter Simulators
2022-08-17T16:03:46Z
Ep. 165 - Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part II): The Rare Pro-Worker Narrative
2022-08-03T18:10:11Z
Ep. 164: Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Cliche
2022-07-27T14:25:44Z
News Brief: Biden's Dictator Tour and the Tedium of Our "Human Rights Concerns" Theater
2022-07-20T15:44:49Z
Live Interview: How Our Simplistic 'Inflation' Discourse Fuels the War on Workers  -  with Josh Mason
2022-07-13T16:19:51Z
News Brief: Forced Pregnancies, Gutting the EPA and Growing Frustration Over "Vote Harder" Messaging
2022-06-29T16:20:49Z
Ep. 163: The Media-Manufactured Mystique of the US Court System
2022-06-22T21:32:08Z
Live Interview: "Action News" & the Rise of Anti-Black Local "Crime" Reporting . w/ Layla A. Jones
2022-06-15T16:48:19Z
News Brief: Boudin Recall Coverage and how the NYT Sells 'Tough on Crime' Dogma to Squishy Liberals
2022-06-08T15:57:22Z
News Brief: “ISIS Bush Assassination” Story Has All the Markers of Misleading, FBI-Manufactured Narrative
2022-06-03T21:00:55Z
Ep. 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics
2022-06-01T19:10:12Z
News Brief: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings
2022-05-27T15:51:26Z
News Brief: Tucker & Co Try to Lawyer Their Way Out of Trafficking in Great Replacement Rhetoric
2022-05-18T16:13:29Z
Ep. 161: The Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of “Criminal Profiling”
2022-05-11T14:41:28Z
News Brief: Most Popular Anti-Union Talking Points (And Why They're Bullshit)
2022-05-06T15:36:54Z
Ep.160: The 'Last $100 in Your Bank Account' Economy - How Media's Love Affair with Crypto, NFTs and Gambling Preys Upon Working People
2022-05-04T15:36:16Z
Ep. 159: The Anti-Worker Pseudo-psychology of Corporate Personality Testing
2022-04-27T14:47:34Z
News Brief: The Central Importance of the "California as Failed Socialist Experiment" Fantasy
2022-04-15T14:43:46Z
Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage
2022-04-13T15:20:13Z
Ep. 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Manufactured to Erase Indigenous Peoples
2022-04-06T15:39:09Z
News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell Criminalizing Homelessness
2022-03-30T18:52:19Z
News Brief: 5 Worst US Media Reactions to Russia's Ukraine Invasion
2022-03-16T14:41:14Z
Ep. 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues
2022-03-09T17:03:10Z
Ep. 156: How the “Investigative Journalism” Aesthetic Can Be Used to Launder Power-Serving Narratives
2022-03-02T16:31:22Z
Ep 155: How the American Settler-Colonial Project Shaped Popular Notions of 'Conservation'
2022-02-23T16:48:27Z
News Brief: "Biden Crack Pipes": Anatomy of a Manufactured GOP Outrage––and Democratic Capitulation
2022-02-10T15:13:51Z
Ep. 154: The Problem with “Inclusive Patriotism” - How Radicals Are Retconned into Liberal Champions of the American Project
2022-02-09T20:17:20Z
News Brief: NYT's Melt Down Over China's 'Zero Covid' Policy Has Nothing to Do With Liberal Rights
2022-02-08T15:53:23Z
Ep. 153: Crime Stoppers, America's Most Wanted and Rise of Vigilante TV News
2022-02-02T15:10:44Z
Live Interview: Police 'Defunding' That Never Was and Abolitionism as a Long-Term Social Project
2022-01-26T15:36:53Z
News Brief: Dem-Aligned Media Set Up Teachers Unions to Take the Fall for Midterm Losses
2022-01-21T17:00:06Z
A Very Special News Brief  -  Hallmark's Anti-Labor Churn: A Follow-Up Conversation
2022-01-19T17:47:52Z
News Brief: CNN Segment on "Extremism" Equates Racism with "Prejudice Against Business People"
2021-12-29T20:47:42Z
News Brief: Dems Make Up Nonsensical "Defensive Weapons" Carve Out to Justify Continued Support for Israel and Saudi Arabia’s Indefensible Sieges
2021-12-17T16:11:14Z
Ep. 152: Hallmark Christmas Movies and the Cozy, Conservative Nostalgia Machine
2021-12-15T16:57:05Z
Ep 151: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part II)
2021-12-08T17:47:57Z
Ep 150: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)
2021-12-01T16:15:22Z
Episode 149: How Fatness Became a Cheap Joke and Proxy for Moral Deficiency in Pop Culture
2021-11-24T16:50:19Z
Episode 148: The GOP's 'Rightwing Populism'  Rebrand (Part II) - Messaging Wars in "White America"
2021-11-10T18:29:05Z
Episode 147: The GOP's 'Rightwing Populism'  Rebrand (Part I) - How Billionaire-Backed Charlatans Pick Off Disillusioned Lefties
2021-11-03T14:44:19Z
News Brief - Reconciliation Bill Negotiations: A Media Autopsy
2021-11-01T14:35:46Z
Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity 'Activism'
2021-10-27T15:21:57Z
News Brief - Colin Powell: Stumbling Empire Personified
2021-10-20T18:18:19Z
News Brief: On Reconciliation 'Fight', Media Focuses on Abstract Numbers and Horse Race Over Human Stakes
2021-10-08T13:49:25Z
Live Interview: How 'The Kaepernick Effect' Revealed Reactionary Forces in Youth Sports with Dave Zirin
2021-10-06T15:58:31Z
Ep. 145: How Real Estate-Curated ‘Mom & Pop Landlord’ Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections
2021-09-29T16:41:36Z
Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions
2021-09-22T14:29:41Z
Episode 143: PR and Prop 22  -  How Silicon Valley Uses Hollow "Anti-Racist" Posturing to Sell Its Exploitative Business Model
2021-09-15T14:58:48Z
News Brief: 5 Goofiest Patriotism Moments of the Early 'War on Terror'
2021-09-10T18:43:36Z
News Brief: On Afghanistan Exit, US Pundits Center America’s Bruised Ego
2021-08-17T00:31:45Z
Ep 142: The Summer of Anti-BLM Backlash and How Concepts of "Crime" Were Shaped By the Propertied Class
2021-08-04T16:37:37Z
Live Interview: How the ‘Pandemic Games’ Expose the Neoliberal Scam of Global Sporting Events
2021-07-28T14:50:27Z
Ep. 141: How “Most Livable Cities” Lists Center Upwardly Mobile White Professionals
2021-07-21T15:28:32Z
Ep. 140 - Kicking the Hollywood Habit: Addiction Morality Tales in Film and TV [Virtual Live Show]
2021-07-07T17:04:16Z
Ep. 139: Of Meat and Men - How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination
2021-06-30T15:50:16Z
News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'
2021-06-26T03:00:44Z
News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content
2021-06-16T16:21:21Z
News Brief - “Labor Shortages”, “Chipotle Price Increases” & “Unemployment Fraud”: Media Assists Capital’s Attack on UI
2021-06-12T23:00:49Z
Episode 138: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part II)
2021-06-09T16:20:55Z
Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)
2021-06-02T17:52:15Z
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2021-06-02T17:39:28Z
ICYMI: Listen To Our April AMA!
2021-06-01T16:08:48Z
News Brief: "Organized Crime" "Shoplifting Epidemic" Panic Hits San Francisco Media
2021-05-26T17:09:08Z
News Brief: US Media Laps Up Biden Admin's "Combative Phone Call" PR Game
2021-05-20T12:41:17Z
Episode 136: The 'Ungrateful Athlete': Anti-Black, Anti-Labor Currents in Sports Media
2021-05-19T16:11:21Z
News Brief: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points
2021-05-14T18:00:18Z
News Brief: How US Media Helped Trump and USAID Weaponize “Aid” During 2019 Venezuela Coup Attempt
2021-05-12T15:35:11Z
On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script and Support BDS
2021-05-12T01:33:03Z
News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines
2021-05-06T16:59:13Z
NewsBrief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
2021-04-30T16:46:02Z
Episode 135: The “Labor Shortage” Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages
2021-04-29T00:19:26Z
Ep. 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare
2021-04-21T16:55:15Z
Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars
2021-04-14T15:31:30Z
News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
2021-04-10T22:48:20Z
News Brief: 'United States of Al' and the Persistence of the Good Muslim Native Informant
2021-04-02T23:47:38Z
News Brief: WaPo Editorial Board's Outright Lies on Bolivia Coup Are Part of 70-Year Tradition of Spinning for CIA
2021-03-26T03:26:17Z
News Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight
2021-03-24T15:59:00Z
Episode 132: The House Always Wins — How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State
2021-03-10T15:51:11Z
News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
2021-03-03T15:13:19Z
Ep. 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor
2021-02-17T15:10:12Z
News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn
2021-02-10T17:31:57Z
News Brief: US Media Treats Amazon's Wage Theft as Mere Clerical Error
2021-02-06T21:09:50Z
Ep. 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media’s Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance
2021-02-03T16:24:33Z
News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging
2021-01-28T15:21:35Z
Ep. 129 - Vaccine Apartheid: US Media's Uncritical Adoption of Racist "Intellectual Property" Dogma
2021-01-27T16:02:37Z
Ep. 128 - The “Healing” Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power
2021-01-20T16:43:00Z
News Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"
2021-01-07T07:19:26Z
News Brief: US Media Uniformly Insists Bloated Pentagon Budget "Must Pass"
2021-01-04T02:47:25Z
News Brief: Wonder Woman Pays Homage to the Reagan Era with Gross 1980s-Style Orientalism
2020-12-29T21:35:06Z
Ep. 127: Democratic Leadership's Predictable Scapegoating of 'Defund the Police'
2020-12-16T17:22:55Z
Ep. 126: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn’t Rehash Under Biden (Part II)
2020-12-09T18:15:19Z
News Brief: The ICE and Pentagon-Bloating Vagueness of the "Climate Change is a National Security Issue" Mantra
2020-12-08T14:51:49Z
Ep. 125: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part I)
2020-12-02T17:01:35Z
Ep. 124 - Mental Health During A Pandemic: How US Media Spins Societal Failures Into Personal Self-Help Journeys
2020-11-25T19:11:38Z
News Brief: It's Not a 'Fall From Grace', This Has Always Been Who Giuliani Was
2020-11-20T19:12:13Z
Ep. 123: How Liberal Meta-Demands for "Investigations" and "Studies" Are Used to Silence Activists
2020-11-18T16:48:15Z
News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy'
2020-11-11T16:36:15Z
News Brief - Post Election Spin: Trump Blames CIA for Loss, Corporate House Dems Blame BLM
2020-11-07T16:55:48Z
Ep. 122: Climate Chaos (Part II)  - The Militarization of Liberals' Climate Change Response
2020-10-28T15:11:44Z
News Brief: The Final 2020 Debate (Recap!)
2020-10-23T14:28:25Z
Ep. 121: Climate Chaos (Part I)  -  How the Gap Between Liberal Rhetoric and Policy Promotes Denialism
2020-10-21T16:27:44Z
News Brief: Sorkin's "Chicago 7" Retcons 1960's Radicals as Boring Liberals in GOTV Thriller
2020-10-19T01:31:04Z
News Brief - Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Follow Up Conversation with Oliver Stone
2020-10-14T14:51:07Z
News Brief: The Power-Flattening, Fake Outrage Over Trump-Covid Schadenfreude
2020-10-03T03:25:18Z
Ep. 120: 30 Under 30 Lists and the Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed 'Success' Narratives
2020-09-30T15:33:58Z
News Brief - Debate Reaction: Fox News Aids Trump's Voter Suppression Strategy
2020-09-30T05:28:43Z
Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music
2020-09-23T14:44:41Z
Ep. 118 - The Snitch Economy: How Rating Apps and Tipping Pit Working People Against Each Other
2020-09-16T15:30:01Z
Ep. 117: The Always 'Lagging' U.S. War Machine
2020-09-09T16:42:06Z
News Brief: Biden's 'Law and Order Lite' Trap
2020-09-04T14:40:31Z
News Brief: Centering Republicans at DNC Isn't About Courting Voters, It's About Courting Donors
2020-08-19T17:31:41Z
News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment
2020-08-11T16:26:15Z
Episode 116: The Pro-Gentrification Aspirationalism of HGTV's House-Flipping Shows
2020-07-29T15:28:05Z
Ep. 115: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part III) - How the Pentagon and CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking
2020-07-22T15:11:51Z
Ep. 114: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part II) - Oscar-Bait Imperialism
2020-07-15T15:13:56Z
News Brief: The Harper's Letter and Our Extremely Narrow, Self-Serving Definition of Cancel Culture
2020-07-08T16:07:05Z
Ep. 113: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part I) - Action and Adventure Schlock
2020-07-08T15:37:17Z
News Brief: Bolton's 'Bait Liberals into Being Rightwing' Book Tour
2020-06-29T14:56:43Z
Episode 112: How "Polarization" Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing
2020-06-24T15:16:21Z
Ep. 111: How “Small Business” Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America
2020-06-17T14:56:11Z
News Brief: The Growing Pushback to Copaganda
2020-06-10T15:22:52Z
News Brief: Soulless NatSec Lanyards Worried Uprisings May Harm 'US Standing in the World'
2020-06-05T16:24:49Z
News Brief: Cops Push “Outside Agitator” Line, Exploit Real Fears of Far Right Violence to Delegitimize Protests
2020-06-04T16:23:04Z
News Brief: 7 Years On, US Media Still Has No Answer for #BLM Other Than Vague Handwringing
2020-05-30T22:36:01Z
News Brief: Trump, the NFL, and the Upcoming Mother of All 'Culture Wars'
2020-05-27T15:00:30Z
Ep. 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist “Innovation”
2020-05-20T15:45:01Z
News Brief: Botched Venezuela Coup Attempt Permits Snarky US Pundits Endless 'Bumbling CIA' Jokes
2020-05-07T18:27:12Z
Ep. 109: Self-Help Culture and the Rise of Corporate Happiness Monitoring
2020-05-06T15:36:52Z
Ep. 108: How GDP Fetishism Drives Climate Crisis and Inequality
2020-04-29T16:30:02Z
Ep. 107: Pop Torts and the Ready-Made Virality of ‘Frivolous Lawsuit’ Stories
2020-04-22T17:04:40Z
Ep. 106: The Sanitization of Sanctions
2020-04-15T15:25:15Z
News Brief: Widespread Indifference to Covid-19 in Prisons
2020-04-08T15:32:28Z
News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)
2020-03-29T19:49:35Z
News Brief: As a Social Democratic Response to the Pandemic Falters, Likelihood of Martial Response Rises
2020-03-23T01:32:47Z
Ep. 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human
2020-03-18T15:16:41Z
News Brief - 'Contagion' Film Review: Great Film, Dubious Politics
2020-03-16T15:52:33Z
Ep. 104: The Pete Peterson Austerity Empire and the “How Will You Pay For It?” Lie
2020-03-11T13:36:18Z
Ep. 103: The Glib Left-Punching of “Purity Politics” Discourse
2020-03-04T17:43:54Z
Ep. 102: The Conservative Sanctimony of Journalistic Impartiality
2020-02-26T17:55:47Z
News Brief: WaPo's 'Russia Loves Bernie' Report and US Media's Increasingly Desperate Sanders Gotcha-ism
2020-02-25T20:34:24Z
Ep. 101: The False Universality of “Common Sense”
2020-02-19T15:32:50Z
News Brief: New Hampshire -- When Winning Isn't Winning
2020-02-12T18:15:20Z
Ep. 100: Willie Hortonism 2020 -- Media Attacks on Prison Reform
2020-02-05T16:37:45Z
News Brief: The Iowa Narrative, 'Conspiracy Theories' and What Constitutes an 'Oligarch'
2020-02-05T00:57:36Z
Ep. 99: The Cruel, Voyeuristic Quackery of Rehab TV Shows
2020-01-29T16:19:21Z
Episode 98: The Refined Sociopathy of 'The Economist'
2020-01-22T15:55:09Z
News Brief: CNN Debate's Inane Rightwing Gotcha-ism
2020-01-17T15:35:59Z
Ep. 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps
2020-01-15T15:45:31Z
News Brief: US Media (Again) Loves Trump The Most When He's Starting Wars
2020-01-04T21:46:55Z
Ep. 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex
2019-12-11T15:29:55Z
Ep. 95: The Hollow Vanity of Libertarian "Choice" Rhetoric
2019-12-04T15:33:05Z
Ep. 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
2019-11-27T14:45:38Z
News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea
2019-11-20T17:01:59Z
News Brief: Swole Jack Ryan Carries Out Venezuela Coup Rubio Couldn't
2019-11-19T00:00:18Z
News Brief: Bolivia Coup Coverage and the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse
2019-11-15T21:14:45Z
Ep. 93: 100 Years of U.S. Media Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
2019-11-13T16:54:49Z
Ep. 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of ‘Automation’
2019-10-30T15:02:25Z
Ep. 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"
2019-10-23T15:07:29Z
Ep. 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights Is Used to Erase Native People
2019-10-16T16:15:45Z
Promo - Live Show @ Cornell University 10/26
2019-10-09T17:52:10Z
Ep. 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason
2019-10-09T14:49:41Z
News Brief: San Francisco's Drug Dealer-Fighting Rocks
2019-10-02T16:30:43Z
Ep. 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech"
2019-09-25T15:07:42Z
News Brief: Jon Schwarz on Samantha Power's Whitewashing Memoir
2019-09-23T17:15:42Z
Ep. 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain
2019-09-18T14:48:46Z
Ep. 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News
2019-09-11T14:46:02Z
Ep. 85: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part I) - The Infestation Rhetoric of Local News
2019-09-04T14:36:06Z
News Brief: Meltdown Over Sanders' Suggestion Billionaire Media Owners May Influence Media They Own
2019-08-17T16:41:09Z
News Brief: Tapper's Loaded, Rightwing, Smarmy Debate Questions
2019-08-02T17:52:59Z
Ep. 84: How Claims of “Sowing Discord” Are Used to Silence Criticism of Power
2019-07-24T14:54:51Z
News Brief: Biden's Obvious, Braindead Medicare-for-All-Lies
2019-07-21T19:02:38Z
News Brief: Chance the Snapper and How Plucky Animals Became the New Folk Heroes
2019-07-18T14:34:02Z
Ep. 83: The Unchecked Conservative Ideology of US Media's 'Fact-Check' Verticals
2019-07-17T14:47:06Z
Ep. 82 - 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity
2019-07-10T16:40:58Z
Ep. 81: How U.S. Media Pits Labor and Climate Activists Against Each Other
2019-07-03T15:09:56Z
News Brief: Phony Outrage Over Sanders' 'Regressive' College Plan
2019-06-27T16:16:35Z
Ep. 80: Animal Rights as Media and Pop Culture Punchline
2019-06-19T16:01:48Z
News Brief: Racist Mugshots and Sleazy Innuendo Used to Smear Bail Reform
2019-06-14T17:48:15Z
Ep. 79: How 'Neutral' 'Experts' Took Over Trump's Iran Policy
2019-06-12T15:23:22Z
Ep. 78: The Militarization of U.S. Media's Drug Coverage
2019-06-05T16:00:48Z
Ep. 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism
2019-05-29T15:35:39Z
Ep. 76: The Anti-War Rebranding of Rhodes and Power and the Moral Hazard of Faux Mea Culpas
2019-05-22T15:32:54Z
News Brief: The #Bronx120 and Preet Bharara's Woke Rebranding
2019-05-09T21:51:21Z
News Brief: A Coup by Any Other Name
2019-05-04T16:21:34Z
Ep. 75: The Trouble with 'Florida Man'
2019-05-01T15:24:25Z
News Brief: Biden Is In
2019-04-28T01:39:10Z
Ep. 74: Liberal Gandhi Fetishism and the Problem with Pop Notions of 'Violence'
2019-04-24T15:34:08Z
Ep. 73: Western Media’s Narrow, Colonial Definition of "Corruption"
2019-04-17T15:38:28Z
News Brief: Dem Leadership Helps Fuel Incitement Campaign Against Ilhan Omar
2019-04-16T19:04:23Z
Ep. 72 - John Stossel: Libertarian Billionaires' Inside Man
2019-04-10T15:48:21Z
Ep. 71: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part II)
2019-04-03T15:03:35Z
News Brief: Muellerites and The Great Disappointment
2019-03-28T14:11:51Z
Ep. 70: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part I)
2019-03-20T16:15:54Z
News Brief: Beto's Bad Obama Impression
2019-03-20T01:56:04Z
Ep. 69: The Rise of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend
2019-03-13T14:59:41Z
Ep. 68: A New Gun Control Debate - Dismantling Our Racist 'Lock 'Em Up' Approach
2019-03-06T16:50:31Z
News Brief: Let's Relitigate the Shit Out of 2016 -- with Thomas Frank
2019-03-01T02:28:47Z
Ep. 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of “Electability”
2019-02-27T16:14:06Z
Ep. 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy
2019-02-20T14:25:04Z
News Brief: Billionaires, NYTimes Come to Amazon's Defense
2019-02-20T03:21:15Z
News Brief: Rubio and Trump's Cynical Venezuelan Aid PR Stunt
2019-02-13T16:06:43Z
News Brief: NBC's Sleazy Tulsi/Russia Innuendo is a Dress Rehearsal for Attacks on Sanders
2019-02-07T18:19:16Z
Ep. 65: How Empire Uses ‘Feminist’ Branding to Sell War and Occupation
2019-02-06T17:10:39Z
News Brief: Venezuela and the NYT's Long History of Backing U.S. Coups
2019-01-31T19:54:26Z
Ep. 64: Mike Rowe’s Koch-Backed Working Man Affectation
2019-01-30T15:15:04Z
News Brief: Jon Chait Goes After Liz Warren for Selling out to Big Teacher
2019-01-23T21:36:20Z
Ep. 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
2019-01-23T15:56:18Z
Ep. 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
2019-01-16T15:12:59Z
News Brief: The Media's Marginal Tax Disinformation
2019-01-10T14:11:14Z
Ep. 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC? (Part II) - A Rebuttal
2019-01-09T16:54:13Z
Ep. 60: Kitten Rescues, Lip-Syncing, and Christmas Traffic Stops: Your Guide to Clickbait Copaganda
2018-12-12T16:00:27Z
Ep. 59: National Pastimes - Mindless Militarism in American Sports
2018-12-05T16:13:12Z
News Brief: NPR's Amazon Infomercial and the Problem of 'Tech' Journalism
2018-11-29T16:16:45Z
Ep. 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry
2018-11-28T15:57:08Z
News Brief: Consumer Society and the Curation of Culture
2018-11-21T16:13:57Z
Ep. 57: A Matter of Survival - Trivializing Trans Rights as a Boutique “Identity” Issue
2018-11-14T15:27:49Z
Ep. 56: How The Media Learned to Worry About War Without Ever Opposing It
2018-11-07T14:24:16Z
News Brief: Corporate Media Is Psyched About Economic Prospects of Brazil's Fascist President-Elect
2018-11-01T03:47:53Z
Ep. 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism
2018-10-31T15:40:37Z
Ep. 54: Local "Crime" Reporting as Police Stenography
2018-10-17T15:34:22Z
Ep. 53: The Increasingly Dull Edge of 'Hypocrisy' Takedowns
2018-10-10T14:31:53Z
Ep. 52: Attacks on Affirmative Action and the Commodification of Diversity
2018-10-03T14:50:09Z
Ep. 51: How 'The West Wing' Poisoned the Liberal Mind
2018-09-26T15:55:42Z
News Brief: Media Lets Nikki Haley Say Whatever the Hell She Wants
2018-09-26T04:00:48Z
Ep. 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved Socialism
2018-09-19T15:15:55Z
Ep. 49: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part II)
2018-09-12T14:55:00Z
Ep. 48: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part I)
2018-09-05T15:23:30Z
News Brief: Don't Let the Media Erase McCain's Far-Right Legacy
2018-08-26T02:44:32Z
Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence
2018-08-08T16:03:39Z
Ep. 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa
2018-08-01T16:17:55Z
Ep. 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part I - Bill Gates and Western Media
2018-07-25T14:35:24Z
Ep. 44: RussiaGate, Year 3 - Using the Nonstop Specter of Russia to Tarnish Black Activists (Part II)
2018-07-18T15:13:08Z
Ep. 43: RussiaGate, Year 3 - How Liberals' Martial Posture Harms the Left (Part I)
2018-07-11T14:58:36Z
News Brief: GOP and Corporate Dems Very Concerned™ About Ocasio-Cortez
2018-07-06T19:22:55Z
Ep. 42: 'Populism' - The Media’s Favorite Catch-All Smear for the Left
2018-06-27T19:35:55Z
Ep. 41: The Moral Poverty of Capitalist Healthcare Framing
2018-06-20T15:20:27Z
News Brief: On Korea, Pundits Choose Point-Scoring Over Peace
2018-06-15T15:17:50Z
Ep. 40: The Civility Fetish
2018-06-13T15:45:30Z
Ep. 39: From Cradle to Courtroom - How The Media Stacks the Deck Against “Defendants”
2018-06-06T15:24:06Z
News Brief: NATO-Aligned Think Tank Will Help Curate Truth For Facebook
2018-05-30T19:20:11Z
Ep. 38: The Media's Bogus Generation Obsession
2018-05-23T14:58:44Z
News Brief: Another Gaza Massacre, Another Media Whitewash
2018-05-16T16:07:34Z
Ep. 37: Black Lives Matter, Dreamers, and the Problem of 'The Perfect Victim'
2018-05-16T14:36:17Z
Ep. 36: Maplewashing -- Looking Behind Canada's Progressive Veneer
2018-05-09T15:15:01Z
Citations Bonus w/ Jon Schwarz: Why All This Stupid Shit Actually Matters
2018-04-30T17:33:45Z
Ep. 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left
2018-04-25T15:50:48Z
Ep. 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?
2018-04-18T16:45:03Z
News Brief: Parsing the Meta-Objections to Syrian Strikes
2018-04-17T22:05:42Z
Ep. 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican
2018-04-11T15:25:10Z
WaPo Editorial Board Outflanks Israel Military From the Right
2018-04-09T18:55:39Z
News Brief - The Saudi Prince's U.S. Propaganda Tour Rolls On
2018-04-04T15:29:46Z
Ep. 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
2018-03-28T16:21:04Z
Ep. 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War
2018-03-21T14:56:58Z
News Brief: Yemen Update, Liberals Outraged Trump isn't Threatening North Korea with Nuclear Armageddon
2018-03-15T14:51:59Z
Ep. 30: Liberal Media’s Myopic Military Worship
2018-03-14T15:28:05Z
Ep. 29: The Asymptotic ‘Two State Solution’ (Part II)
2018-03-07T16:03:25Z
Ep. 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I)
2018-02-28T16:23:41Z
News Brief: How to Respond to Knee-Jerk Bigotry on Live TV
2018-02-21T17:19:34Z
Ep. 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience
2018-02-14T17:32:43Z
Ep. 26: The 'Welfare' Dog-Whistle
2018-02-07T17:48:50Z
Ep. 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of ‘Democracy’
2018-01-31T17:34:21Z
News Brief: Twitter Sends Creepy Email Calling 677K People Kremlin Dupes
2018-01-25T21:16:28Z
Ep. 24: Highlighting Alternative Media - The Moral Limits of Dunking on Thomas Friedman
2018-01-24T17:19:25Z
News Brief: Why the Media Should Stop Calling it a "Government Shutdown"
2018-01-24T02:19:27Z
Ep. 23: The Media's Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
2018-01-17T16:24:03Z
Ep. 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past
2018-01-10T18:13:23Z
News Brief: Pro-Bombing Iran Crowd Suddenly Cares About The Iranian People™
2018-01-05T15:45:10Z
Ep. 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color
2018-01-03T15:21:16Z
Ep. 20: Lotteryism, Part II -- A Most Dangerous Game: How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts
2017-12-20T16:37:17Z
Episode 19: Lotteryism (Part I) — How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning'
2017-12-13T18:53:34Z
News Brief: The First Failson-in-Law Saves the Middle East
2017-12-07T05:06:29Z
Ep. 18: Fake News Panic and the Silencing of Dissident Media
2017-12-06T19:53:40Z
Ep. 17: Whitewashing America's Role in Yemen
2017-11-29T19:12:09Z
News Brief: 60 Minutes' Yemen Whitewash
2017-11-22T19:24:55Z
News Brief: #J20 Trial Update and the Political Definitions of 'Violence'
2017-11-22T18:59:32Z
Ep.16: Editorial Boards: Protectors of Establishment Ideology
2017-11-15T15:20:40Z
News Brief: A Prince, a Purge & the Media's GoT Obsession
2017-11-09T12:59:01Z
Ep.15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch
2017-11-08T17:10:11Z
Ep. 14: The Iran Deal Protection Racket
2017-11-01T17:42:04Z
Ep. 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire
2017-10-25T14:35:55Z
News Brief: The Return of the 'Bernie Bro' Narrative
2017-10-18T20:29:33Z
Ep. 12: The New Atheists - Celebrity Crusaders For Empire
2017-10-11T14:00:31Z
Ep. 11, Part II: The Deficits Racket -- Racist Media as Barrier to Government Spending
2017-10-04T14:14:14Z
Ep. 11, Part I: The Deficits Racket -- Single-Payer Propaganda War
2017-09-27T13:14:51Z
News Brief: Rob Reiner's Goofy Rightwing Anti-Russia Group
2017-09-25T19:53:02Z
Episode 10: Ableism and the Ethics of Calling Trump “Crazy”
2017-09-20T21:05:25Z
News Brief: We Review TV's Fashy Fall Lineup
2017-09-17T11:00:31Z
Episode 09: Liberal Media Throws #J20 Activists Under the Bus
2017-09-13T15:44:24Z
News Brief: The Never-Ending 2016 Primary
2017-09-11T16:09:03Z
Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
2017-09-06T13:50:50Z