Paramount erases archives of MTV website, 30 plus years of music and culture history

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Barely music related, but crappy news nontheless.

Paramount Global Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years - Showbiz411

MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth. Parent company Paramount Global, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. The M in MTV – music — is gone, and so is all the reporting and all the journalism...

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MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth.

Parent company Paramount, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. The M in MTV – music — is gone, and so is all the reporting and all the journalism performed by music and political writers ever written. It’s as if MTV never existed. (It’s the same for VH1.com, all gone.)

There’s no precedent for this, and no valid reason. Just cheapness and stupidity.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I didn't even know it was out there, now I'm mad that it's gone! Though I suppose most of what was there has been imported into youtube one way or another.

 

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Internet Archive to the rescue.

MTV News Repository of Nearly 480,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedown

After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, Internet Archive launched a searchable index of 480,000 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

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