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

submitted 5 months ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 5 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).