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CBS Refuses To Preserve Jack Benny Footage

Posted by kdawson on from the thirty-nine-forever dept.

goosman writes "The president of the International Jack Benny Fan Club had the opportunity to review some holdings of the CBS vaults while assisting them with some transfers. In the vaults she found 25 shows on film that were unreleased, but in the public domain. The IJBFC offered to pay for the digitization and preservation of these shows; they got a letter of enthusiastic support from the Benny estate. CBS has so far refused to allow this preservation to happen." BoingBoing and TechDirt have both covered this act of cultural destruction.

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  1. Obamacare croaked with Coakley! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you don't know? Jesus man, how EMBARASSING!

    Seriously though, I was on the news when I was little (some tree planting thing with my school). I appeared in the background for around 3.89s - you know what? The dirty TV station supposedly "doesn't have" the tapes. I am OUTRAGED I tell you, OUTRAGED. They just want to destroy human culture for profit!

    Again, who the fuck is Jack Benny? And more importantly what the fuck is the point of this story?

  3. Re:Correct Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think the appropriate is:

    Hand on hips, (long pause) WELL!

    There, fixed that for ya'.