The poll shows a wide partisan divide on the issue. Among Democrats, 80% favor and just 5% oppose the requirement. Among Republicans, 45% are opposed compared with 33% in favor, with 22% saying neither.
These numbers are focused on a survey conducted that the highest percentage of the people are in favor of telling people to wear masks on Planes, trains, and public transportation
The AP-NORC poll of 1,085 adults
This shows more context of the Sample size in the poll
The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Place where the numbers come from
Both Swift and Ticketmaster, he also pointed out, have the power to restrict ticket resales and thereby diminish the power of scalpers.
Opinion: Author blames both Taylor and Ticketmaster for the situation
It’s typically the artist who makes the lion’s share of ticket-sale profits, he noted — and the artist plays a role in deciding how tickets are priced. In this case, he said, it’s possible that Ticketmaster used a dynamic pricing system, which calculates the prices of tickets based on the level of demand.
The author argues that artists also have the power to control the ticketing prices for when artists decide that they are going on tour
Swift may also be responsible. Ticketmaster is just “a punching bag,”
Another word to describe Ticketmaster
Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster meltdown: What happened? Who’s to blame?
This headline makes the reader make themselves their own conclusion about how they believe is to blame for the Ticketmaster situation
It also resurrected criticism that Ticketmaster holds outsize power in the ticketing and live events industry.
This is the reason why people are holding a grudge against Ticketmaster
I am evidence that Swift will do anything for her fans.
The author is a swifitie
For its part, Ticketmaster’s first PR strategy was to try to pit us — the Swifties who had spent hours trying (and failing) to get tickets — against the artist we worshipped. As Greg Maffei, chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, told CNBC shortly after the cancellation announcement, “The reality is, Taylor Swift hasn’t been on the road for three or four years and that’s caused a huge issue.” By blaming Swift, Maffei showed that his company’s loyalty is not to artists or their fans. He also demonstrated that he fundamentally doesn’t understand what makes Swift so successful — her relationship with each and every person who listens to her music.
Conflict: This paragraph talks about the conflict between both Taylor Swift fans and Ticketmaster. Additionally, this paragraph also demonstrates the strong relationship that Taylor Swift has with her fans
Swift’s music has gotten me through periods of depression and a global pandemic. It’s also been the soundtrack to my most euphoric moments and even brought me closer to the people in my life — I love Dani more than anything but sometimes our mutual love of Swift has been only thing we can agree on.
The author has a special connection to Taylor Swift
"The biggest venues and artists turn to us because we have the leading ticketing technology in the world - that doesn't mean it's perfect, and clearly for The Eras Tour it wasn't."
This makes Ticketmaster sound cocky in which they have the best artists to get themselves to earn money from
Taylor Swift says it was "excruciating" to watch fans struggle to buy tickets for her upcoming US tour, after sales descended into chaos this week.
The victims are the Swifties
“Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., wrote in a Tweet Tuesday. “Its merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up.”
This quote from AOC builds a negative narrative against Ticketmaster in which that the company is at fault for both aspects of how they handled the situation along with the company taking advantage of both the public and the artist
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre indicated that U.S. President Joe Biden has little sympathy for Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation, which is reportedly facing an antitrust probe over the fiasco Taylor Swift fans faced in trying to snag seats for her upcoming Eras Tour.
This paragrah creates a positive narrative for the U.S. Justice Department in which it shows that the government cares about people
At least one group of fans is organizing in hopes to take down the monopoly that Live Nation has over concert tickets. The Swiftiest, a fan blog, has put out a call to any Swiftie who wants to get involved in “taking Ticketmaster down.” On the site, fans can sign up to get involved in the movement, whether that’s through digital organizing or demanding that politicians kill the ticket-hawking monopoly.
Taylor Swifts taking action into planning to sue Ticketmaster
The ticketing debacle drew the ire of several lawmakers, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, head of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, who wrote an open letter to Ticketmaster’s CEO, saying she has “serious concerns” about the company’s operations.
The situation caught the attention from U.S. Congress in which they are questioning Ticketmasters acknowledgement of bots and if they were aware of the bots and why didn't they put any effort to solve the problem
Taylor Swift spoke out in a heartfelt post about the ticketing “mistakes,” writing on Instagram that there were a “multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time” getting tickets, and said the experience was “excruciating” for her to watch.
Taylor Swift shares her thoughts on the situation along with her frustrations towards Ticketmaster
The lawsuit alleges the company “intentionally and purposely mislead TaylorSwiftTix presale ticket holders by providing codes to 1.4 million ‘verified fans,’” despite the shortage of seats.
Accusation from the lawsuit against Ticketmaster
In November, “Verified Fans” were sent a presale code — but when sales began, heavy demand snarled the website and millions of Swifties could not get their hands on a ticket. Presale tickets for Capital One card holders brought similar frustration — and then Ticketmaster canceled sales to the general public, citing “extraordinarily high demand” and “insufficient remaining ticket inventory.”
When the problem began
“Ticketmaster is a monopoly that is only interested in taking every dollar it can from a captive public,” according to the lawsuit.
Opinion from the public in describing Ticketmaster
The lawsuit also claimed that since Ticketmaster has agreements with the large stadiums in the tour, Swift “has no choice” but to work with Ticketmaster due to the size of her fan base. It also alleges that Ticketmaster profits off the resale of tickets in the secondary market by adding a service fee to its fan-to-fan exchange.
Claims from the lawsuit
More than two dozen Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. for “unlawful conduct” in the pop star’s chaotic tour sale, claiming the ticketing giant violated antitrust laws, among others.
Reason for why Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster
It’s no surprise that demand was going to be high for The Eras Tour, given Swift hasn’t gone on tour since the Reputation Stadium Tour in 2018 and had to cancel her planned Lover Fest tour because of the pandemic.
I agree with this statement I wasn't surprised in that the Ticketmaster website was going to have issues on the day that Taylor Swift fans wanted to purchase tickets for her upcoming tour
“As a group, we should focus on how we can help bring down Ticketmaster. Not each other, and probably not Taylor herself,” one wrote.
Swifties focus their anger towards Ticketmaster than being angry with Taylor Swift
The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation — which predates the Swift ticketing troubles — focused on whether Live Nation has abused its power over the live music industry, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
The focus of the investigation against Ticketmaster
The meltdown in ticketing this week renewed calls from lawmakers to break up the 2010 merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, which some said constituted a monopoly.
Article uses the monopoly metaphor which has to do with how Ticketmaster abuses their power over both artist and fan
n Wednesday, after receiving complaints from customers, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) said he would look into whether the website violated consumers’ rights and antitrust regulations.
Senators in Congress getting themselves involved in finding who was responsible in creating the chaos that happened on Thursday
The fiasco sparked bipartisan outrage from some Democrats and Republicans who have questioned whether Ticketmaster handled the Swift ticket rollout appropriately.
This sparked curiosity to me because what do Democrats and Republicans care about Ticketmaster sales
Ticketmaster halted Friday’s public ticket sales of Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour
News value: Unusualness Ticketmaster canceling ticket sales for Taylor Swift's Era's Tour was a very unexpected current of events to have occurred
November 18, 2022
Timeliness: This article was written two days after the incident happened
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the ranking member and chair, respectively, of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, wrote a letter Monday to the FTC asking whether the commission will invoke the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, or BOTS Act.
Interesting that members of congress are asking for the law to be brought back? But this made me question if this act was taken away or if it was still intact.
And last month, US President Joe Biden - who has expressed concern that monopolies have become more common across the economy - said his administration would look into fees on concert tickets.
Factual information President Joe Biden expressed his concern in a press conference with the way that ticket companies take advantage of their users by making them pay more for what they need to
Meanwhile the US Justice Department has opened an investigation into Ticketmaster's parent company, Live Nation Entertainment,
News value: Unusualness It was unexpected for the U.S. Justice Department to have decided to get themselves involved in the investigation
The problems have refocused the debate in the US on Ticketmaster's dominance, which has long faced complaints that it abuses its power over the industry, with US Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar announcing there will be a Congressional hearing to investigate the website.
News value: Conflict People have started to challenge the way that Ticketmaster handles their tickets being sold to fans in the sense that the company abuses its power over users and how this kind of abuse of power human rights
But responding on Instagram, US pop star Swift said she had been assured that Ticketmaster could handle demand.
Factual information that Taylor Swift took to her Instagram page speaking about her anger with Ticketmaster and her sympathizing with fans that weren't able to purchase tickets for her upcoming tour
Ticketmaster was criticised over its handling of the sales - which saw widespread site crashes in the presale and then cancellation of the main sale.
News Value: Conflict Ticketmaster was being criticized by Swifties by the decision from Ticketmaster deciding to cancel their ticket sales
Taylor Swift
News value: Prominence Taylor Swift is a very well known artist world wide in the music industry
19 November
News Value: Timeliness The article was published 3 days after the incident happened
While the law gives the FTC the authority to enforce violations, the senators claim the agency has taken action just once, despite the ongoing proliferation of bots in online ticket sales.
News Value: Impact The issue has yet to be resolved but this can affect fans of other artists in the long run which can cause their fans to run into the same problem as Swifities experienced
In the letter, the senators inquired about the steps the FTC is taking to enforce the 2016 law known as the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, which was designed to crack down on the use of illegal bots, which snap up hundreds or thousands of tickets before fans can purchase them.
News value: Conflict The problem with Ticketmaster has been that it has addressed its issue with bots in which was the source of the problem of not allowing fans to purchase concert tickets
Congresspeople have promised action in the wake of Ticketmaster’s problem-filled presale for Taylor Swift’s 2023 tour,
News value: Unusualness It was unexpected to see that the U.S. Government has gotten involved in investigating the issue with Ticketmaster
Taylor Swift
News Value: Prominence Taylor Swift is a very well know artist world wide
Nov 29, 2022 9:50am PT
News value: Timeliness This article was published two weeks after the situation took place
Swifties Declare War on Ticketmaster
Metaphor for war used on the title of the article as a way to describe the anger that fans of Taylor Swift had when they couldn't get tickets for the Eras Tour
highlight the impact of small businesses ahead
Purpose of the poll created
Preferences differed by generation, with Gen Z respondents
Main focus of the responses were from Gen Z
The survey, which was commissioned by AT&T and conducted by OnePoll
Organization who conducted the poll
A recent survey of 2,000 U.S. adults
Sample size of people used for the poll
The uniqueness of Yinka Ilori’s style and his sense of colour are profoundly affected by his Nigerian roots and his experience as a child of immigrants.
This is a fact which can be true about how immigrants that come from other countries can have an emotional connection to their cultural roots
Chairs are objects we use every day, but on chairs we cry, we think, we argue, we eat: it is quite a special object, a huge part of everyday life”
This can be an example of opinion because sometimes when people start to feel emotions they don't always sit on chairs when they feel a certain kind of emotion.
Design that unites
The title of the article implies that the design that the artist llori created is very inclusive in which can help unite people together
As long as we have each other, we’ll be OK”; or “Love always wins”.
This is a metaphor for love in which Lakoff and Johnson mention in the reading. These metaphor are implying that since everyone is united as one together they can spread love towards other people
"It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students," said Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
This is biased because it talks about how Florida is not a very inclusive state when it comes to not allowing people to learn things about different cultures or races.
"Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics."
This is a fact because it shows the reasons of why Florida decided to reject textbooks
Harryween is certainly becoming a must-see moment of the autumn calendar.
This is an informed opinion about "Harryween" this line in the article would attract people to go see a Harry Styles concert in Los Angeles
Harry Styles has got us Hopelessly Devoted to Him With his Harryween Costume
The title of the article already sparks interest in what Harry Styles dressed as for Halloween.
The crowd was also treated to a special rendition of "Hopelessly Devoted to You", sung in the film by the late Olivia Newton John, who passed away on 8 Aug. 2022.
Fact Harry did play "Hopelessly Devoted to You" during his concert as way to tribute Olivia Newton John who played Grease
Each year, Halloween gets a rebrand as Harry Styles puts his stamp on the occasion and declares it Harryween. So for his "Love on Tour" show on 31 Oct.
The article talks about Harry Styles performing in Los Angeles during Halloween. Which every year he creates this special event during his concerts called "Harryween"
The day before Swift drops Midnights, she’ll release a teaser trailer during the third quarter of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.
I found this to be interesting because I find it interesting that Taylor Swift and the NFL are going to be teaming up to promote her album during Thursday night football
So, here’s what to expect when Midnights arrives.
This helps people who are interested in what's going to happen in the next upcoming weeks with Taylor Swift's new album
Swift’s Midnights promotions have seriously been on another level.
This article highlights on promotion of Taylor Swift's new upcoming album called Midnights
Shein: Fast-fashion workers paid 3p per garment for 18-hour days, undercover filming in China reveals
When people view this article they will immediately recognizes the name Shien due to the popularity that they have towards that they are well known for their cheap branding