By: Jason Tabrys, Scott Gries
Last week, LateNighter reported that Paramount had dustbinned a quarter-century’s worth of Daily Show clips as well as those from The Colbert Report and other shows. Done nearly a week after the same company had taken down two decades of MTV News reporting, it was a reminder that the act of preservation is unending and, sadly, often in defiance of a business climate that doesn’t understand the value and importance of archival intellectual property.