"When Team USA entered the San Siro during the parade of nations, the speed skater Erin Jackson led the delegation into a wall of cheers. Moments later, when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos. Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones. Canadian viewers heard them. Journalists seated in the press tribunes in the upper deck, myself included, clearly heard them."
"But the defining feature of the modern sports media landscape is that no single broadcaster controls the moment any more. CBC carried it. The BBC liveblogged it. Fans clipped it. Within minutes, multiple versions of the same happening were circulating online some with boos, some without turning what might once have been a routine production call into a case study in information asymmetry."
During the Milan Olympics parade of nations, Erin Jackson led Team USA into cheers while audible, sustained boos greeted US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance. Canadian viewers, journalists in the stadium, and international broadcasters heard the boos, but American viewers watching NBC did not. Multiple broadcasts and social clips circulated differing audio versions within minutes, creating information asymmetry. NBC denied editing crowd audio despite the discrepancy. The proliferation of camera angles and feeds makes curating a single version of live events harder. This raises concerns about how future US-hosted events might present or omit crowd reactions to political figures.
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