Sean L. McCarthy: Today in always save backup PDFs of your clips if you're a journalist in the year 2024: MTV News has vanished variety.com/2024/digital...

Today in always save backup PDFs of your clips if you're a journalist in the year 2024: MTV News has vanished variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

I learned this in 2010 when the site I worked for pulled everything. So you don’t even have to include “2024”

I learned this after I left the Boston Herald in 2006, unfortunately, but did save my actual newspaper clippings

wdym old mtv news articles don't show up in wayback machine? web.archive.org/web/19990219...

MTV News Online web.archive.org music news site updated hourly

the article says "according to Hiatt older MTV News articles do not show up," so i guess they're referring to shit earlier than 1997 but this #Usher one is a trip forgot that mofo was in movies

Usher Divides Time Between Film, Music And TV Projects web.archive.org

really enjoying time traveling back to the 90s

Well they should show up, sort of. Everything that was available at the time these crawls should be available. Anything the admins put up but subsequently decided to take down in between crawls (for example, most of 1997 and 1998, or the summer of 2008) may be missing. incidental, not systematic

Thinking about the day I heard about Kurt Cobain from Kurt Loder.

I was a politics commentator on MTV Brazil in 2009/2010. In 2013 they changed owners here and all my video production was gone. I could salvage only my blog posts and most cherished interview, the one with Deep Purple's founder Jon Lord. But my politics comments vanished.

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