It’s not your imagination. , and it’s not just because they’re infecting its own product with consumer-averse A.I.
slop and pages of worthless ads. It’s also a product of private equity, seeing the writing on the wall and desperately wanting to erase it. , it was by the divine mercy of their corporate owners that some two decades of culture reporting would at least be accessible on the MTV News website.
Alas, it’s the latest to be flattened into a digital vacant lot. MTV News folded in May last year when Paramount laid off of its staff in a “very hard but necessary decision,” said Paramount CEO Chris McCarthy, . Now, it’ll be like their work never existed.
MTV News’ website is no more. It has ceased to exist, and along with it, 20 years of culture writing and reporting have been wiped from the record in a flash. When one goes to , all they will find is MTV’s splash page advertising yet another chapter in the saga.
So anyone looking to research how MTV covered the post-9/11 pop culture landscape sans social media manner is S.O.L.
We all are. Basically, until society accepts that journalism isn’t much of a moneymaker and stops trying to milk it for cheap clicks, we’re going to keep seeing elements of our recent history pulled down and destroyed. Soon, all that will remain are remembrances on the Way Back Machine and what’s available when we add “site:reddit.
com” to search queries. As screenwriter, author, and former writer , “Archives should neve.