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This Woman Had More Than 70,000 Shows That News Stations Lost, Deleted, And Recorded Over

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: November 18, 2019 4:00 am

Marion Stokes, a former Communist activist who turned into a recluse, recorded MSNBC, CNN, FOX News and many other news programs, more than 70,000 of them, on Betamax and VHS tapes. “Stokes began recording around the birth of the 24-hour news cycle. She felt it was an important influence on public opinion and wanted to capture this lens through which people view current events,” according to her son. – WBUR

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Published: 11.14.19

Read the story in WBUR Published: 11.14.19

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