“The author should just post a link to the video or provide a transcript.”
The article provides a summary of the interview and a link to the interview.
If someone does not want to listen to the entire interview he can read the summary.
If someone wants to hear the entire interview he can go to the link.
The best of both worlds.
More and more on FR I am seeing headlines about a certain article, yet the link goes to an article about the article. Sometimes there is three layers, as when a person has something to say about an article discussing an original article on NYT or WaPo. It takes four or five clicks to get to the original article mentioned in the headline.