Most of the early Daily Show clips had been removed from the website long before last week’s online purge
Kevin M. (RPCV) On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:01 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> 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. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> >> 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 <train...@ellwanger.tv> >>> 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. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> 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. 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