Ticketmaster Draws Bipartisan Fire From Congress In Taylor Swift Hearing
During a Judiciary Committee hearing today attended by Newsweek, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the antitrust subcommittee, made the case that Live Nation’s dominance over the market was a reason why Live Nation’s Ticketmaster system failed customers in November eager to purchase tickets to Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. “To have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition,” Klobuchar said in her opening statement. “You can’t have too much consolidation, something that unfortunately for this country, as an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say we know ‘All Too Well....