The staffers on "TDS" claim that they used the COM website to look up old episodes. Do they mean that there were no spreadsheets showing what was on past episodes and that the tapes and/or digitized files of 28 years of episodes were inaccessible in the office? Tape bulking had pretty much ended by 1996, so they supposedly shouldn't have needed the website to look up how many bits Colbert did in 1999 or what Kilby's Five Questions were to the guests. I think they were just too damn lazy.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Internet Archive has hundreds of thousands of MTV News articles that > nobody will ever read because it only barely qualified as journalism. > Hurray for digital detritus! > > > https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-articles-internet-archive-wayback-machine-1236058997/ > > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah, somebody else compared it to when NBC bulk-erased all their >> videotaped archives; this is not that. It began with MTV News material, but >> I suspect if you needed footage of Kurt Loder being smugly glib or glibly >> smug about something in the ‘90s for a documentary, you could still reach >> out to secure that footage. I just doubt the domain names were getting any >> perceptible traffic, which would mean they either need to be redesigned or >> scrapped. >> >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I saw someone on Bluesky comparing this to the fact that many silent >>> movies no longer exist - but there’s a big difference between “studio >>> destroys all known copies of its content” and “studio no longer makes its >>> content available on a website." >>> >>> >>> On Jun 26, 2024, at 5:24 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I see people really getting worked up about this. It raises the >>> question: Do people still visit websites for archived media? >>> >>> >>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comedy-central-website-daily-show-clips-wiped-out-1235933345/amp/ >>> >>> >>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DW-9VouSLz6kEVOwCRGyYcYBpcmp_d0%3DcYM3i7jaKfzQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DW-9VouSLz6kEVOwCRGyYcYBpcmp_d0%3DcYM3i7jaKfzQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3CF55E45-FCF4-4F2E-9994-B861A3764FA0%40ellwanger.tv >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3CF55E45-FCF4-4F2E-9994-B861A3764FA0%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Ao5XEBiqG7FxO60qEicU8BQ51gNa4OvkWz8COk5EnqrA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Ao5XEBiqG7FxO60qEicU8BQ51gNa4OvkWz8COk5EnqrA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9ZmLP4juvJ5879QpTwC9s7vfJmYicy-3m2yg7j_b1M5Q%40mail.gmail.com.
