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Watching: Paper Tiger Television

0.0•1981-01-01•1 Seasons

Season 1

Episode 18

Seasons

Episodes

Herbert Schiller Reads The New York Times: The Steering Mechanism of the Ruling Class

Natalie Didn’t Drown: Joan Braderman Reads The National Enquirer

Stuart Ewen Reads The New York Post: Fantasy, Morality and Authority

Bill Tabb Reads U.S. News & World Report: Disrobing the Economy

Tuli Kupferberg Reads Rolling Stone: Always Smile When You Give ’em the Shaft

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue: Wishing, Dreaming, Winning, Spending

Archie Singham Reads Foreign Policy: A Look at the Old Boy’s Network

Joel Kovel Reads Life Magazine: It’s a New Life, Painting a Corpse

Stanley Aronowitz Reads The New York Times: A Timely Look at Labor

Elayne Rapping Swoons to Romance Novels

Richie Perez Watches Fort Apache: The Bronx

Patty Zimmerman Reads Variety: Hooray for Hollywood

Pearl Bowser Looks at Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

Renee Tajima Reads Asian Images in American Film: Charlie Chan Go Home!

Marc Crispin Miller Reads Cigarette Ads: Lots More Ifs, Ands & Butts

Jean Franco Reads Mexican Novelas: Adiós Machismo! Hola Maquilladora

Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa: The Hair in the Milk

Noam Chomsky Reads The New York Times: Seeking Peace in the Middle East

Thulani Davis Asks, Why Howard Beach?: Racial Violence and the Media

Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic on Primates

Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M

Fred Landis Reads The Washington Times: The Dark Side of the Moonie

Protest + Education Can Equal Change (featuring Kathy High)

The Last Graduation: The Rise and Fall of College Programs in Prison

Class Dismissed (featuring Howard Zinn and James Loewen)

Overview

Paper Tiger Television is a public-access television series created in 1981 by a New York–based media collective led by DeeDee Halleck. Produced with a low-budget, do-it-yourself aesthetic, the series features artists, scholars, and activists critically examining mainstream media, often by analyzing newspapers, magazines, or television content on camera. Distributed through public-access channels and grassroots networks, the program became an influential example of alternative media, promoting media literacy and challenging corporate control of information.