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Chris Morris

The ex-CEO of Ticketmaster sticks up for the business after a Senate hearing over the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco and says it's 'easy to blame' the company

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Fred Rosen, who ran Ticketmaster in the 1980s and 1990s, is getting fed up with people complaining about the company’s role in the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco last year—and certainly has no patience for this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

In an outspoken interview with Canada’s CBC, Rosen blamed fans and artists for the problem, noting that painting Ticketmaster as the villain in the story is “absurd.”

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