Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ on Nostr: Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the ...
Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the BBC had literally taped over crucial elements of our shared memory just to save money on buying fresh videotape. But today we learn that Paramount has apparently deleted the entire archive of MTV content. Now I’ve never watched MTV and won’t miss what’s crassly destroyed by beancounters but I invite you to imagine them deleting … oh let’s say the entire archive of Star Trek because it’s their property and they can
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