Council insecurity: the UN at 75
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The founders of the United Nations expected it would move with the times. It hasn’t. Can reforms keep all those nations united? The global focus on policing following George Floyd’s death has sparked a reckoning for television shows that distort Americans’ views of cops. And with this weekend’s Glastonbury festival long since postponed, we ask how live music will survive the pandemic.
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| 1:02.3 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:08.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:16.2 | Bad boys, what's you going to do? After a 31-year run, the television show Cops has been canceled. |
| 1:23.4 | Now that a global lens is focused on the shortcomings of policing, there's a reckoning about how it's portrayed on the small screen. |
| 1:31.4 | And the 50th installment of the frankly epic Glastonbury Festival |
| 1:35.8 | was supposed to be this weekend. |
| 1:37.8 | Instead, everyone's getting their live music over the internet. |
| 1:41.3 | It isn't the same. |
| 1:43.0 | But the winner-takes takes all business of live music |
| 1:45.4 | does need some innovation. |
| 1:54.4 | First up, though. |
| 1:59.2 | 75 years ago, this week, as the Second World War was blazing to a close, world leaders gathered |
| 2:05.4 | in San Francisco to sign the United Nations into existence. |
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