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The Recorder: 30 years of TV news (The Marion Stokes Project)

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dialogue 1

Jingjing:　How are you, Mark?　---------------?

Mark:　I'm afraid not, Jingjing.　Just like most people, I'm going through the ---------- and trying not to --------------in my work.

Jingjing:　That sounds pretty -------.　I've had a bit -------- to work on projects I enjoy, but have mostly been busy --------- my regular work.　Hey, did you hear about the lady in Philadelphia who---------------------?

Mark:　I heard that story mentioned as a---------when I was listening ------------.　Do you know much about it?

Jingjing:　Yeah.　I was really---------I started reading the ----------.　First of all, her name is Marion Stokes.　She was very --------- and then wanted to live a more -----------.

Mark:　Okay.　You said 30 years—----------------?

Jingjing:　Well, she-------- in 2012.　Her first recording was of a Nightline broadcast about the Iranian ---------------------.

Mark:　That was in the late ------, wasn't it(?), during Jimmy Carter's ---------.

Jingjing:　That's right, 1979.　It began in November and ------r-.

Mark:　Wow, it'd be interesting enough just to se---------　I remember seeing Ted Koppel, the host of Nightline, ----------------

Jingjing:　Well, -----------------------------------------------------

Mark:　So, ---------------: she recorded the news once a day for 30 years?

Jingjing:　No.　She started-------- from major networks.　This was just at the beginning of the----------.　She left her machines running during the -------- and p-----------------------

Mark:　Wow.　If someone puts all that on the Internet, you could visit the website and ------------the channels in 1985 or 1995.　It be cool just to---------------- instead of edited videos.

Jingjing:　That's thinking like a-------------------, Mark.

Mark:　I bet her project is more-------- than that.　What do you think of it, Jingjing.

Jingjing:　I had a lot of ideas as I was reading the story. ------------------------ here while we're talking, so that I get the facts right.

Mark:　Sure.　No--------------

dialogue 2

Jingjing:　Ok.　So here's the first article I saw.

Mark:　Oh, that's a good ----------------.　I get a lot of my news from there.

Jingjing:　Right.　And here's the ---------.　It's called The Recorder: the Marion Stokes ------------------.　

Mark:　Wait, what?　There's a movie about a person ---------------?

Jingjing:　There is.　I -------seen it.　But the ------------is enough to make a movie.　It's cool to see what television looked like -------------- don't you think?

Mark:　Well, I think it's something we-------------------------

Jingjing:　Yes, but in the 1980s and 90s, even television stations were ----------------- and reusing the tapes.

Mark:　Wow, now that you mention tapes, I'm wondering------------ to record 30 years of non-stop footage on------------------TV channels.

Jingjing:　Hold on, I saw that number...　Here it is:----------------------

Mark:　Whoa!　Where did she put all of them?

Jingjing:　She sent them out to a---------　She----------------her project.　So, she even had the new tapes -------------------in small batches.

Mark:　Wow, a project that--------- for three decades—and hardly----------- about it!

Jingjing:　Yep.　And she also read ----------- per day, and saved most of those.

Mark:　I've heard of people like that in -----------where I've lived and visited—people who---------.　But here it sounds like her---------- -------------------

Jingjing:　Yeah.　Who would have known an old lady in a small apartment could ------------ for preserving the-------------------the 20th century?

Mark:　Well, I'll ------------ for that movie about her.　Hopefully there's also a website where people can -----------------.

Jingjing:　I'd watch it too.

Mark:　Thanks for sharing the story, Jingjing!

new words and phrases

from dialogue 1

sideline (noun)　an additional or auxiliary story, often-times provided as a link or mentioned verbally in a news broadcast, so that people can continue reading the story under the current headline and remember the keywords for the sidelined story to read later

<be> pulled in <by something>　(phrasal verb)　become interested in something, want to keep reading

let me get this straight　(a way of asking for clarification and confirmation) (usually after this, the person asking repeats what he/she thinks he/she just heard in slightly different words)

24-hour news cycle (noun) (the word “cycle” is an echo from when TV news aired every evening and a fat Sunday newspaper meant in-depth coverage of issues spanning several days or weeks) the current condition of journalism, since the takeover by cable news and the world-wide web: a rush to publish stories and catch readers with flashy headlines, a general tendency toward sensationalism and fear-mongering

flip through the channels　(verb phrase)　use a remote control to watch a few seconds or minutes of TV on each station, then changing over to another, without stopping to watch any one full show

from dialogue 2

take <something> for granted (verb phrase)　accept something as common, expect it to always be there

archive (noun)　a formal and well-organized system for storing information, in its originally-published form

digital media (noun)　recorded audio and video in digital form (so that it can easily be stored on a computer)