World Digital Preservation Day

MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth.

Parent company Paramount Global, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. The M in MTV – music — is gone, and so is all the reporting and all the journalism performed by music and political writers ever written. It’s as if MTV never existed. (It’s the same for VH1.com, all gone.)

“A tradition has to have an institution to perpetuate it. Whether it’s an institution that teaches or whether it’s an institution that allows the tradition to survive or thrive–it needs a place to be nurtured.” - Walter Payton