Scottish Greens propose ticket tax on Swifties (morningstaronline.co.uk)

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 34 points 6 months ago

Clickbait headline, it's a £1 per ticket fee on large concert venues to support smaller concert venues.

Scottish Greens’ culture spokesman Mark Ruskell said: “A small £1 charge on the biggest stadium-packing gigs like Taylor Swift at Murrayfield could have a transformative impact on our industry and our culture."

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 6 months ago

If you can get a reference to Taylor Swift into a headline, it probably multiplies your clicks by a few orders of magnitude, so journalists and/or editors are getting increasingly shameless. There was an article a few weeks ago about Scottish Fold cats having medical problems and they made the headline about Swift as she has one of those cats (whose medical history was not mentioned).

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