Re the Travis Scott Concert crush (Videos show crowd stampede at Travis Scott concert that left 8 dead, hundreds hurt)
The death toll is now 10.
Why is it not the Live Nation Crush?
Because he was on stage at the time and I didnât know that âLive Nation Crushâ was correct name of this tragedy?
good thing corporations can hide behind some words.
@Mindysan33 raises a valid point that this tragedy had nothing to do with the artistâs actions and everything to do with the organizersâ.
ETA: the articles Iâm seeing are referring to it as the âAstroworld festival crush.â
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that didnât take long
apparently several advisors have already left because the public statements made by the âuniversityâ didnât line up with why they signed up
the winner of the sinking ship award said
he was going to concentrate on his book (which came out in September)
lol.
Squeeeeee!
That is an incredible detail, lol
Coryâs email today has some stuff about LiveNation
𪢠Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths
Itâs obviously grotesque to pick a âworst thingâ about the Astroworld catastrophe that killed ten people (including a young child), but itâs pretty easy to pick a âmost enraging thingâ about the disaster - how foreseeable and preventable it was.
The kind of crowd-crush that killed and maimed those Astroworld attendees happens all the time. There was another stampede at the Astrodome, two weeks previous, at a Playboi Carti show.
And that wasnât even the first time a Playboi Carti Astrodome show had a stampede - the same thing happened in 2019:
As David Dayen writes in The American Prospect, this happens at concerts all over the place, whenever you have the combination of general admission venues, a set of barriers that kettle attendees, and understaffed security. It happened in Central Park in 2018, at Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani gigs in 2016, and more.
It would be weird if all these different venues all engaged in the same unsafe practices, but thereâs a common thread running through all of this: Live Nation, the monopolist whose conglomerate also includes Ticketmaster, Pandora and Siriusxm. Live Nation also has an equity stake in 300 major venues. If youâre going to a gig, whatever happens is Live Nationâs fault, because it runs the show.
As Dayen writes, monopolists donât have to care about adverse outcomes from corporate negligence. Itâs nearly impossible to enjoy live music without enriching Live Nation, so why should they give a shit if people who go to those shows get killed?
Live Nation understaffed the Astroworld show. It understaffs all its shows.
And, as is typical for Live Nation, the company had no contingency plan for a crowd surge:
(It did have a contingency plan for dead concertgoers, though: security staff were to refer to these corpses as âSmurfsâ so as not to alarm other concertgoers).
Live Nation knows that, as a monopolist, itâs both too big to fail and too big to jail. The DoJ can whack it with $20,000,000 fines for corporate espionage and it just shrugs it off:
It can illegally require bands to use Ticketmaster for all their live-shows, get caught, only to be told âDonât do it againâ by the FTC:
And then, it can do it again, knowing the only consequence will be the FTC saying âDonât do it again,â again.
No wonder the companyâs stock-price hit a record high in the middle of a pandemic in which the global market for live events declined to a figure indistinguishable from zero:
As Dayen writes, the failure to enforce antitrust law on concert promoters may seem like a mere dereliction of duty, but it actually creates a substantial risk to public safety. Without antitrust enforcement, it doesnât matter how high Live Nationâs kill-count climbs, theyâll still be in business.
(Me)
As I said before: never give live nation money. They are scum.
And ticket touts who rip off the artists.
Because monopoly
That was a very thorough follow-upâŚthank you!
Cory Doctorowâs work not mine. Well worth a subscribe.
