Sure, it’s popculture. It’s fleeing, ever-changing and yes, sometimes it was borderline dumb. But MTV News was such an important news outlet for young people. It covered the latest beef in hip-hop next to upcoming elections and world news.

Madonna poses confidently next to the MTV logo in a retro studio setting.

Now, all the archives of MTV News are wiped out. Gone. As if this part of history never existed. Decades of music history are just gone. It is truly disgraceful how this can happen, just because of some financial woes within the parent company. There is still the Internet Archive, but we’ll see how long that will last. Since the big record companies are already sueing the archive for copyright infringement. Remember the saying “once something is online it is there forever, it never goes away”? Yeah… well that turns out pretty different…