All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive

6 writes with news that the Internet Archive has launched an online archive of TV news content. According to the NY Times, it will "include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news." In addition to preserving the works of humankind, the archive is for helping citizens "better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs."

Comments

All the news since 2009!?

[TaoPhoenix]

How did they manage the copyright clearance for THAT!?

ALL = American?

[diodeus]

I guess "All the news" need not contain any foreign sources. Disappointing.

Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere

[Bigby]

I hope they make everyone look so bad that the public just gives up on the "lesser of two evils" method of voting.

Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere

[CanHasDIY]

Are you kidding? The politicians on the right flip flop so much on every possible issue that the last thing in the world any of those networks wants is a public with a memory that goes back farther than a week.

Yea, thank goodness the politicians on the left never do that stuff, right?

Obama: "Mine will be the most transparent administration in history."

Caveat: I think they're all greedy, self-absorbed douche-bags. No bias.