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I could understand a personal blog disappearing, but even major news websites aren't archived or mirrored except for bigger articles. Sure, publish your person

I could understand a personal blog disappearing, but even major news websites aren't archived or mirrored except for bigger articles. Sure, publish your personal data and it's on the internet forever, but publish a well thought out essay on identity over time and it's easily lost. Media is much, much worse.

dredmorbius 5y ago
As of the early 1970s, broadcast TV news networks routinely recycled video footage and had no in-house library or research services. Addressed in Edward Jay Epstein's News from Nowhere (1973). https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret00epst/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret00epst/page/n5/m... Early entertainment programming was also often not saved. Some present archives exist soley because audience members "pirated" copies off the air. Preservation of commercially-motivated product is often a very low priority. (Ironic given the US's Mickey Mouse copyright legislation.)