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News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times

Citations Needed

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this News Brief, we talk with Chris Mills Rodrigo from Writers Against The War On Gaza about their campaign to boycott the New York Times and remove the "paper of record" from its pedestal of alleged neutrality and editorial rigor.

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0:00.0

Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.

0:07.8

I'm Adam Johnson.

0:09.0

We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length episodes of Citations

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0:27.7

All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we are 100% listener funded.

0:33.8

And for this news brief, Adam, we're really excited to have our guest, Chris Mills-Rodrigo on.

0:40.8

He's an organizer for Writers Against the War on Gaza, which is a coalition of media,

0:45.4

cultural and academic workers committed to Palestinian liberation.

0:49.1

And Adam, I know you've recently connected with them directly through your book tour. Your book, How to Sell a

0:56.0

Genocide is now out in all bookstores. I encourage all listeners who have not yet picked it up to do

1:01.6

so. All the royalties go to Middle East Children's Alliance for Peace. They are an amazing

1:07.6

organization and I know that you've been connected with a lot of really

1:10.9

incredible organizers through your work, Adam, and writers against the war on Gaza are one of them.

1:16.8

Yeah, they were kind of enough to host me for an event in early May in New York City.

1:22.9

And then it occurred to me, we should have them on the show because I think the work they do

1:27.0

around delegitimizing and boycotting the New York Times is important.

1:31.5

As we've discussed offline and on the show before, a lot of times when you do this work,

1:37.7

people ask, well, what can I do?

1:39.5

What's the sort of call to action?

1:41.0

And one of the calls to action is to join the boycott of the New York Times.

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