ICYMI: The Day MTV News Went Down

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Candice Lim is joined by Patrick Hosken to discuss the downfall and disappearance of MTV News. In May 2023, Paramount Global laid off 25 percent of its workforce, which included MTV News staffers like Hosken. A year later, Hosken had a new job at Rochester’s CITY Magazine when he clicked on his own MTV News articles and discovered they were gone because the website had been taken down. On today’s episode, Hosken describes the emotional journey of getting laid off, watching decades of music journalism disappear and how this was a lesson in internet preservation. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
0:45.7	And Casey missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:49.8	And joining me today on the show is an arts and culture writer for Rochester City Magazine.
0:54.0	He's also a former editor at MTV News. It's Patrick Hoskin. Hello, Patrick.
0:58.0	Hey, thanks so much for having me. Patrick, it is so nice to have you on the show. I have a dying question, which is, where were you when President Joe Biden dropped out of the election?
1:06.0	I happened to be on a porch at an inn overlooking a mini dog like relay race that was happening on a lawn.
1:14.5	And I heard someone yell out, Biden is out.
1:16.6	And that's how I found out.
1:17.9	That is so funny.
1:19.4	I, too, was outside.
1:21.3	I was in D.C. on Mass Ave when it happened.
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