"We’re living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social

Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed | Zach Schonfeld

The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

"Are Hollywood studios engines for creativity, or merely hedge funds with their own associated theme parks?"

I’ll say it once, I’ll say it twice fuck david zaslav.

I think is high time the USA was introduced to Alf Garnett

This has certainly happened before. There’s a chunk of pre-70s original TV/Movie film that was destroyed in fires, allowed to rot in storage or recycled/spliced up. Early seasons/episodes of Doctor Who famously lost to time.