Former librarian Marion Stokes began recording the news in 1977, after having done a stint co-producing a local news broadcast with her husband. By the time cable helped create the 24-hour news cycle, what started as something of a hobby turned into an obsession. Between 1977 and her death in 2012 at 83 years old, Stokes had recorded an incredible 140,000 tapes of local, national, and cable news.
Fast Company reports that Stokes recorded everything from the Iranian Hostage Crisis to Hurricane Katrina — and she needed as many as eight VHS television recorders running 24 hours a day to do it. Doing so was no easy task: to juggle the six-hour tapes recording broadcasts on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, CSPAN, and local stations, she'd cut...
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