Field of streams: sports viewing changes
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As the Olympics begin, more people than ever will be watching via streaming services. We examine the changing viewing habits transforming sport’s role in the broadcast business. The sentencing of Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, reveals the empty, performative nature of justice in Russia today (11:10). And the internet has dubbed Kamala Harris “brat”—and that is a kind of compliment (18:34).
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| 0:59.0 | The Economist. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, |
| 1:12.4 | we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. In Russia, Evan Gershkovich, |
| 1:22.2 | a Wall Street journal reporter, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on bogus spying charges. |
| 1:29.6 | Our correspondent, a longtime friend of Evans, gives us a glimpse into the empty performance |
| 1:34.6 | of justice in today's Russia. |
| 1:38.7 | And a little vocabulary lesson arising from America's presidential race. |
| 1:43.8 | Kamala Harris has been dubbed |
| 1:45.1 | Brat, which is something of a compliment these days, one that comes with a color. Don't worry, |
| 1:51.6 | we'll explain. First up, though, |
| 1:58.7 | The first up, though... Tonight's opening ceremony in Paris is the official start of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, |
| 2:15.0 | appointment viewing for fans of sport and of pageantry the world over. |
| 2:20.3 | It wasn't always so. |
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