Nima Shirazi
nimashirazi.bsky.social
Nima Shirazi
@nimashirazi.bsky.social
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The @citationspod.bsky.social podcast hosted by @nimashirazi.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social is a great program dedicated to media criticism in case you havent heard of them before. They have a huge catalogue and a lot of great structural analysis of copaganda’s form and function
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Nima Shirazi
As usual, @citationspod.bsky.social has been all over this dismal media dynamic for a while: @ahjohnson.bsky.social @nimashirazi.bsky.social discuss Axios' propaganda functions in this excellent episode from January 2024.
Citations Needed: Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
"Make sense of the day’s news and ideas," urges The Morning, a daily New York Times newsletter. "Get smarter, faster on news and information that matters to you," Axios assures its readership. "This i...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This was not a failure of diplomacy.

Renewed talks were used as cover by the United States to allow Israeli and US war crimes to proceed as planned.

Do not fall into the rhetorical trap of calling this a "failure." This is the success of 46 years of revenge propaganda.
June 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This was not a failure of the Democratic Party.

This was aided and abetted by its elected officials, who not only put up zero opposition to these war crimes, but almost uniformly accepted the false framing of the safeguarded Iranian nuclear program as a "threat" to be defeated.
June 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM