Anyone who creates media that third parties publish should always, always make a back-up of what appeared online.
I learned this the hard way when a former employer disappeared years worth of my blog from a major news organization's website.
It still sucks when companies take down archives, as Paramount has done with MTV News, but at least there's the possibility of resurrecting some of it if individuals save it.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/
Dan Gillmor /
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2024-06-25 01:54:13
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