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She did remark periodically on how small events
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

She did remark periodicallyon how small events from small town America wouldoccasionally...

She did remark periodically
on how small events from small town America would
occasionally make it onto CNN, which would never have
made the national news

Full Transcript

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She did remark periodically on how small events
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from small town America would occasionally make it onto CNN,
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which would never have made the national news.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:57
Uploaded
Jun 11, 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.
She was concerned with how that 24-hour news cycle - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
She was concerned with how that 24-hour news cycle
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