Charissa Thompson’s Sideline Fiction Sparks Worldwide Existential Crisis Over Sports Authenticity
Charissa Thompson and the Global Collapse of Authenticity: A Dispatch from the Sports-Industrial Complex By the time the sun rose in Mumbai, Charissa Thompson had already trended in Lagos, trended in São Paulo, and been retweeted by a Turkish crypto-bro who thinks “NFL RedZone” is a Marxist plot. The reason? The American sideline reporter admitted—on…