May 6, 2026 · 1 hr · 20 segments
Adam Johnson of Citations Needed podcast joins the show to discuss his new book on the media's involvement in the destruction of Gaza, How to Sell a Genocide.
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Kyle KulinskiHost
Today we have journalist Adam Johnson here with us, and, uh, let me just say, Adam, I am super excited for this conversation because, uh, you wrote an absolutely phenomenal book called How to Sell a Genocide, which sort of meticulously breaks down, um, you know, how effectively liberal media, not just right-wing media, but liberal media really, uh, laid out the parameters and, and the groundwork to basically, um, function as, I don't know, an apologist factory for genocide, if not worse than that.
Was selling the genocide, and we'll get into the specifics of that in a little bit, of course, but was selling the genocide intentional in mainstream outlets, or do you think that they like, kinda like the ma- the manufacturing consent idea, that they hire people who are engaged in groupthink, and they believe they're saying the right things, and it just happens to fit into that framework?
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Today we have journalist Adam Johnson here with us, and, uh, let me just say, Adam, I am super excited for this conversation because, uh, you wrote an absolutely phenomenal book called How to Sell a Genocide, which sort of meticulously breaks down, um, you know, how effectively liberal media, not just right-wing media, but liberal media really, uh, laid out the parameters and, and the groundwork to basically, um, function as, I don't know, an apologist factory for genocide, if not worse than that.
Was selling the genocide, and we'll get into the specifics of that in a little bit, of course, but was selling the genocide intentional in mainstream outlets, or do you think that they like, kinda like the ma- the manufacturing consent idea, that they hire people who are engaged in groupthink, and they believe they're saying the right things, and it just happens to fit into that framework?