Such a situation is the worst time to panic. The media trains panic and fear -— it draws viewers. Mob rush behavior. Not just using it — training it. “Ad Demographics”
On that night ... They piled up IN the exits, because they panicked. Many would have died anyway. But more would have survived had they had not been trained to behave emotionally like a mob to upsetting situations.
Even one life saved by lack of panic is priceless.
The ones they piled up in were locked. Some were saved when onlookers and FD started busting doors from the outside.