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She was concerned with how that 24-hour news cycle
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She was concerned with howthat 24-hour news cycle was being filled and whateffect that...

She was concerned with how
that 24-hour news cycle was being filled and what
effect that would have

Full Transcript

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She was concerned with how that 24-hour news cycle
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was being filled and what effect that would have.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:08
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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Movie Summary

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.
They send us their cars, their VCRs, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
They send us their cars, their VCRs,
Their success makes them money, not necessarily friends. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Their success makes them money, not necessarily friends.
The Japanese have a big public relations problem - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
The Japanese have a big public relations problem
Japan'’s newest export, Sumo wrestlers. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Japan'’s newest export, Sumo wrestlers.
The Japanese have just sent America several tons of sumos, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
The Japanese have just sent America several tons of sumos,
Since the first of the year, a new law allows German citizens - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
Since the first of the year, a new law allows German citizen...
For decades, the police, known as Stasi, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
For decades, the police, known as Stasi,
The East German Secret Police had - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
The East German Secret Police had
The law not only gives victims access to their files, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
The law not only gives victims access to their files,
Truthfulness will not cushion the pain - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
Truthfulness will not cushion the pain
She was obsessed with the mediation of media, you know, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
She was obsessed with the mediation of media, you know,
Exploitation of tearful widows, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
Exploitation of tearful widows,
And although accusing the press of looking bad - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And although accusing the press of looking bad
The polling data that I have seen - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
The polling data that I have seen
The public is fairly content with the journalism - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
The public is fairly content with the journalism
I was thinking, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
I was thinking,
I think it was for the betterment of mankind. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
I think it was for the betterment of mankind.
You talk among yourselves in a technical language - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
You talk among yourselves in a technical language
You need, you need to deal with people - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
You need, you need to deal with people
It seemed like she was always interested - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
It seemed like she was always interested