Ep 60 - Kitten Rescues, Lip-Syncing & Christmas Traffic Stops: Your Guide to Clickbait Copaganda by Citations Needed Podcast published on 2018-12-12T16:07:12Z The media – local and national, print and TV – love puff pieces designed to make the police look good and generally improve their overall brand with the public. More often than not, these human interest stories are typically fed to local news by the police themselves. This type of pseudo-journalism is most transparent in its most overly saccharin iteration, something we like to call clickbait copaganda. Stories involving noble patrolmen rescuing cats from car engines, helping little Jimmy find his stolen bike, raising money for charity, coaching Little League, white cops hugging black kids or handing out Christmas presents all do well on social media and help burnish the police’s image in the age of Black Lives Matter. On this week's episode, we examine the increasingly viral nature of pro-police agitprop, dissect how organic these stories actually are, and identify the five main types of clickbait copaganda. Our guest is journalist Ashoka Jegroo. Comment by andy9279 Do you want them to NOT rescue the pweschus widdle kitty cats? 2022-04-10T16:49:08Z Comment by Rocco Bottero F 2019-11-29T08:50:11Z Comment by Ayman Fadel Here's the ultimate in writing a feel-good story about a horrific event at the Gwinnett County Jail in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Here's the ultimate "feel-good" spin on a horrifying story from the Gwinnett County Jail, a suburb of Atlanta. https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/three-gwinnett-inmates-sheriff-s-deputy-lauded-after-saving-man/article_884cefe8-a9a4-11e9-a9ca-837a4972728e.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social 2019-07-20T14:31:49Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder The peace of the "well-run" cotton plantation. 2018-12-24T23:11:43Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder They want what the Germans wanted from occupied Soviet areas - snitches, willing auxilaries, and assorted bootlickers. 2018-12-24T20:58:30Z Comment by haku +1 like 2018-12-24T06:13:38Z Comment by McBirdMan This woman's voice tho... 2018-12-23T09:11:43Z Comment by Conversations with Slava Thank you! 2018-12-16T08:06:12Z Comment by Conversations with Slava It is like what is going on with so many 'journalists' covering the Washington D.C. 2018-12-16T07:23:22Z Comment by Mi St whenever a police brutality story breaks on r/aww there just so happens to be a highly upvoted gif of police/police dogs... hmm... 2018-12-13T05:32:19Z Comment by ضلاه زنى د سكرفسيه What the fuggg is the title? I can't see the whole thing, the last part is cut off. 2018-12-13T00:34:29Z Comment by Sam that sounds good as hell tbh 2018-12-12T19:50:50Z Comment by Luna Isador LOL of course cops would lip sync to the song from God's Not Dead 2018-12-12T16:40:40Z