US Woman recorded news bulletins for 33 years

Just seen this amazing and very topical story from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-48190528/marion-stokes-the-woman-who-taped-30-years-of-tv-news

It shows even then how spin and media manipulation was prevalent then.

Quite fascinating. Good to see her collection will be uploaded online eventually.

https://recorderfilm.com/

Any chance of the TVS archive being located there?

I can't see it being released in the cinemas here but I have a sneaking suspicion it will show up on Sky Arts or Sky Atlantic. The only parallel I can come up with is Bob Monkhouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykNV4n32KGk

I can see it being released, but it'll end up primarily in arthouse cinemas, such as The Poly in Falmouth, and Plymouth Arts Centre. Those will be the kind of cinemas that will show this.

The mentioned lady seems to have primarily recorded the news as she was an activist and civil rights demonstrator during her life and seemed to have formed the impression that nuggets of news were going to go missing if they weren't preserved.

In comparison to Monkhouse, who recorded a wider range of stuff over a longer period of time, TV and radio, some of it going back to the 1960s and as it turned out becoming the only copy of a lot of stuff, plus he cherry-picked things from the schedules to record, it wasn't a "record anything and everything" sort of thing.

The Monkhouse archive IIRC ended up at about 36k tapes. Stokes about 72k but hardly surprising she was recording 24/7 by the time round-the-clock news came round.

Bob Monkhouse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Monkhouse

I agree Monkhouse was a selective archivist in much the same way as the lady in question was. I was drawing the parallel in both what they did albeit in different spheres.

Stokes did her recordings, in her own words, to benefit society.

Monkhouse did it primarily to archive his own work but also because he was obsessive about collecting stuff generally. It was a hobby, there was probably no intent to benefit anybody but him (indeed his court case in the 1970s shoved the hobby firmly underground and it only resurfaced after his death).

PBS America a possibility as well.