MTV News was once a go-to source for information not just about the music scene (yes kids, Music Television once focused on music) but also politics and other cultural subjects. But its moment passed, and last year MTV closed it down. And, as of yesterday, the MTV News website is also gone, taking with it the vast archive of content created between 1996 and 2013.
As Variety reports, social media is ablaze with former MTV News staffers who are outraged at their work disappearing. “Decades of music history gone,” lamented former entertainment director Crystal Bell. “Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn't fit some executives' bottom lines,” wrote former music editor Patrick Hosken. (The executives in question would be at MTV owner Paramount Global, which hasn’t commented on the archive’s removal.)
