Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241122.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Lever (10/24/24) This week on CounterSpin: Passed by a whisker in Missouri on November 5, legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people? Our guest wrote in-depth on the question ahead of the election. Journalist Amos Barshad is senior enterprise reporter for the Lever, and author of the book No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World, from Abrams Press. We hear from him on this week’s show. Transcript: On Sports Gambling, ‘Are We Just Going to Let Companies Write the Rule Book?’ https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241122Barshad.mp3   Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Trump’s nominees and a Nazi march. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin241122Banter.mp3