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Citations Needed

Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam

Citations Needed

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The first episode of Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson's podcast, Citations Needed, tackles the media hype surrounding the privatization of education.

Show notes can be found here:

2010 tax form for Participant Foundation used to fund Waiting for Superman (note: four donors-- Waltons, Eli Broad, Donald Fisher, Dave Einhorn): 990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_ar…06_990PF.pdf
Gates $2 million contribution to film web.archive.org/web/2010101600404…C-OPP1019819.aspx

Guest Jennifer Berkshire's blog: 
haveyouheardblog.com/
Guest Jennifer berkshire's articles: 
www.huffingtonpost.com/author/tips-391 
www.salon.com/writer/jennifer_berkshire/

Books mentioned by Berkshire: The One Percent Solution www.amazon.com/One-Percent-Solut…ing/dp/1501703064

New Orleans graduation rate stats article from 2014 by Adam citationsneeded.com/2014/05/24/char…na-memory-hole/

Harlem Children Zone original board: 
pbs.twimg.com/media/Cq8wM7cWgAAUfHN.jpg

Further reading:

www.nydailynews.com/opinion/turnove…ticle-1.3272954

newrepublic.com/article/140319/ch…ad-black-students

www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/11/…-charter-schools/

www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/…harter-schools

www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/25/the…-it-s-managed/
www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/26/the…arter-schools/

www.alternet.org/education/how-ch…public-education

www.counterpunch.org/2010/03/10/i-w…chool-teacher/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdPACwRgw04

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson.

0:09.1

Welcome to Citations Needed.

0:10.5

This is Nemeshirazi with my co-host Adam Johnson.

0:12.7

How's it going?

0:13.7

On this show, we will be talking about media, PR and the history of bullshit.

0:19.0

So yeah, this is our very first episode.

0:20.8

Neman and I have known each other for a little bit.

0:23.0

We both write for a fairer, which is a media watchdog.

0:26.3

We have different scopes, a lot of overlap, and we hope this podcast is going to

0:29.8

help kind of make you look at media more critically.

0:32.7

I think we're trying primarily to focus on the tropes and the narratives of media and

0:36.7

to break those down into dissectable forms.

0:39.5

You know, a little less hot-taky and talk about the way people perceive things generally.

0:43.7

It's also a new rule that if you have more than 53 followers on Twitter, you need a podcast.

0:49.3

Yeah, that's a law.

0:50.7

So I want you to know that I understand this is like the 9,000th podcast.

0:54.4

And you know, like when you go on an airline, they say that we know that you have lots of

0:57.2

flights to choose from.

0:58.7

We know that you have lots of podcasts to choose from.

1:00.2

So thank you for choosing this one.

1:01.2

Thank you for choosing this one.

1:03.0

Because you know, by the year 2030, the entire media landscape will just be snarky people

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