The And soo, So, guys I am thrilled to be joined by Adam Johnson today. If you don't already know he's

the co-host of a podcast that I think should be the most popular

podcast in America. I'm not joking. I'm not blowing smoke. I think that citations needed is the best

media analysis work that you can find in media, bar none. I learned so much from it and I am so grateful to it for helping all of us to understand all of the narrative wrangling and magic that's going around,

convincing the broader public that things perhaps aren't quite as bad as they seem to us.

Thank you so much for joining me here on bad faith today, Adam.

Thank you for having me.

As part of your work, you also write articles.

You've got two great ones out right now this month.

In the nation, you wrote a piece called,

We live in an age of cry bullyism where you talk about the

hypocrisy and the weirdly claimed victimhood of figures like Bill Ackman who of course has been leading the charge. of intercept called coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and other major

newspapers heavily favored Israel analysis shows you co-wrote that piece. I

think we should start there and perhaps give people an introduction into the kind of

media analysis that you do so well.

What did you discover and can you kind of get some background as to the nature and the technique

behind the investigation you did there?

So a researcher who is a, I guess a fan of the sub stack and the show reached out to me. He's a little bit younger than I am. He's a Palestinian American. He has a sort of normal 9 to 5 jobs so he remained anonymous for both articles we co-wrote for I think fairly obvious reasons

But he is an Oxford trained data researcher and he does that for a living and he started his own

Substack then he wanted to sort of contribute to the broader to like more what he viewed as more rigorous media analysis on the issue of pro-Israel or more I think more accurately anti-Palestinian bias so he reached out to me and said you know, I have this stuff I'm working on. It looked

really good. So we partnered up. We did a piece from my sub-stack that we co-published with his.

Initially that looked at specifically CNN and missing BC.C. in Fox News, looking at their biases,

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