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

Herb Schiller, a communications expert, dissects the New York Times in an analysis of the New York Times' cultural, political, and economical hegemony in setting the agenda that shapes the news and culture industry. He warns of two major trends in his writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home and the U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. Shot in both black and white and color video.

1981 TRT: 28 minutes #1

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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: New York Times and The New World Information Order

Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in an analysis of the New York Times' cultural, political and economical hegemony in setting the agenda that shapes the news and culture industry. Shot in both black and white and color video.

1981 TRT: 28 minutes #2

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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: Hanging Out In Consumer Capitals: Foreign Correspondents

Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in an analysis of the New York Times' cultural, political and economical hegemony in setting the agenda that shapes the news and culture industry. Shot in both black and white and color video.

1981 TRT: 28 minutes #4

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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: The Neediest and The Greediest; Metropolitan Section

Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in an analysis of the New York Times' cultural, political and economical hegemony in setting the agenda that shapes the news and culture industry. Shot in both black and white and color video.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #6

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Conrad Lynn Reads Commentary: From Postwar Liberalism to the New Right

Conrad Lynn, a noted Civil Rights attorney who started his legal practice in the 1930s, was intimately involved in the struggle for justice and equality for over fifty years. Here, Lynn reads Commentary magazine—a publication established by the American Jewish Committee immediately after the Second World War, in which he emphasizes the magazine's transformation from an originally leftist publication that allegedly encouraged "original, creative endeavors" into a flagship of neo-conservatism.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #9

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Joel Kovel Reads Covert Action: A Salute to the Scourge of the CIA

Joel Kovel does a critical reading of Covert Action.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #11

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Sol Yurick Reads The New Criterion: Search for Quality After the Revolution

Sol Yurick analyzes The New Criterion, a New York-based literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #13

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

Treading through the streets of New York City as his artistic alias Archie Bishop, Stuart Ewen critiques the constant fear and sensationalism the New York Post brings into our lives. Through a series of street interviews, Ewen (as Bishop) reveals the deeper fractures of our social consciousness that have been perpetuated by the Post's bright red fonts, excessive exclamation points, and outrageous headlines, that command us to fear, read, and obey.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #14

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Sheila Smith-Hobson Reads Newsweek: Newsweek Discovers Central America

Sheila Smith-Hobson gives a critical reading of the popular news magazine Newsweek.She comments on both the rampant state of consumerism and commercialism in the early 80's and the American's covert war in South America and the military industrial complex at large.

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1982 TRT: 28 minutes #15

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Tuli Kupferberg Reads Rolling Stone: Always Smile When You Give 'Em the Shaft

Tuli Kupferberg takes a deeper look at the 1980s mainstream pop scene with a reading of Rolling Stone magazine. He attempts to deconstruct Rolling Stone magazine by offering detailed perspectives on it's origin and founding and weighs in on Rolling Stone magazine topics, such as commercial advertising and the cult of celebrity.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #17

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Stanley Diamond Reads Scholastic Magazine: Dis-Informing the Kids

Stanley Diamond breaks down the obfuscating and destructive content of the children's magazine, Scholastic. Highlighted in this program are the ways in which subjects, such as war and nuclear proliferation, are "domesticated" for the consumption of children. He also contrasts our own divisive western cultural methods of child rearing with non-western tribal communities' methods of youth education and cultural inclusion.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #18

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Ynestra King Reads Seventeen: Selling the All-American Girl

Ynestra King reads Seventeen magazine, trying to expose how the publication's superficial and commercial based message to teen girls leaves them without the necessary tools for identity based empowerment and can ultimately isolate special needs and minority teen groups. She also outlines numerous non-commercial methods for improving this publication such as addressing much more common women's issues like community health resources, sexuality counseling and social awareness.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #19

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Murray Bookchin Reads Time: History as a Television Series

Murray Bookchin gives a critical reading of Time magazine by tackling the pacification of world news through their pages. He claims that "Time obliterates time" as the past, present, and future of America is blurred week-by-week. By condensing all events into consumable chunks, Time creates a monotonous layout of our history, one that captures no true feeling or sense of perspective.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #20

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Brian Winston Reads TV Guide: Journal of the Wasteland

Brian Winston considers the contradiction between TV Guide's critique of television and its actual mission to bolster the television industry. He unveils the business dealings of TV Guide owner Walter Annenberg, examines featured stories and critiques the cover of the best-selling magazine in the country.

1982 TRT: 28 minutes #21

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Brian Winston Reads the TV News: Live and on Tape

This show features the analysis of television network news by Brian Winston. Winston looks at the news as a unique institution, governed by its own conventions and constraints and questions how the news use pictures, body language, narrative, and dream logic. He investigates the idea that the nightly news is "holding the nation together" is as well as other themes such as "journalistic intervention" and state sponsored propaganda.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #22

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

Bill Tabb critiques U.S. News and World Report. He points out the publication's bias directive to aid the debilitating force of Reaganomics. As Tabb sees it, US News and World Report is no less than nationalist propaganda masquerading as objective journalism.

1982 TRT: minute #23

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Serafina Bathrick Reads Working Woman: Women in Grey Flannel Stifle Their Rage

Sarafina Bathrick focuses on Working Woman magazine's editorial position, views, and messages to the emerging 1980's women in the workforce. Magazine themes, such as how to enter the "mans world" of business and "working your way up", are deconstructed by Sarafina to eventually reveal an idea of the supremacy of the male world image of success and a woeful lack of critically viewing a woman's right to work in a post-feminist world.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #24

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Oldies and Goodies: A Paper Tiger Sampler

A Paper Tiger's compilation, spanning the collective's first 3 years. This tape is not a regular PTTV show but rather a live show promoting an event that happened in NYC. It includes some short clips from early shows:

#3 Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: 712 Pages of Waste; The Sunday Times, #17 Ynestra King Reads Seventeen: Selling the All-American Girl, #20 Murray Bookchin Reads Time: History as a Television Series, #21 Brian Winston Reads TV Guide: Journal of the Wasteland, #12 Natalie Didn't Drown: Joan Braderman Reads The National Enquirer,

These clips comprise approximately 20 minutes of the entire show. The rest of the show promotes a 1983 gallery event in NYC featuring Paper Tiger productions and the work of many local video artists.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #26

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Harry Magdoff Reads: Business Week

Harry Magdoff talks about the ruling class.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #28

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Alex Cockburn Reads Washington Post: Clipping the Wings of the National Eagle

Cockburn talks about how the Washington Post's pronounced shift to the Right was already well underway when the show was made in 1983. Tracing a biography of the newspaper from 1963, he argues that the newspaper's scope changed to profit-making and how the Post usually has fairly conservative editorials and acts as informal agenda setter for the political class in Washington DC.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #29

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Myrna Bain Reads Ebony: Put Your Money Where Your Soul Is

Professor Myrna Bain gives us his reading of Ebony Magazine. Started in 1945, it was made to embody the "colored answer to Life". Focusing on several issues of Ebony Magazine, Bain highlights the ways through which the magazine projects unrealistic, frivolous and misleading expectations of a "black middle class" while forgoing any coverage of important issues or political statements from local communities. Bain also points out the abundance of exploitative - advertisements, for a range of things from hair products and alcoholic drinks to, armed services recruitment and menthol cigarettes. These ads, designed to capitalize on the magazine's target audience, reinforce stereotypical assumptions about black readers, while advocating consumption and assimilation as the keys to success. Taped during a period of Reagonomic recession, the show underlines the sharp discrepancies between the glamorous lifestyle depicted in Ebony magazine and the harsh reality of unemployment and lack of public resources in many African American communities.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #31

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Joel Kovel Reads Life: It's a New Life; Painting a Corpse

Joel Kovel gives a critical reading of Life magazine. Kovel proposes that, from its founding by Henry Booth Luce in the 1930s until the early 1970s, Life was the voice of American cultural supremacy throught its relationship with the American government, making it a tool to shape public opinion through powerful images. Within this state of regressive corruption, Kovel says, a succession of commercial images and odes to consumer culture replaced early Life's efforts to articulate moments of lived experience through the printed image.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #35

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Tim Haight Reads: Channels

Tim Haight gives a page by page critical reading of Channels Magazine and describes how despite being a "liberal" not-for-profit corporation, the publication was embedded in the corporate systems of the television industry. Haight points to the idea the magazine pushes an agenda of adjusting to new technologies to fit society, but neglects to acknowledge the need for change within the society itself. This contradicts the self-proclamation, which Channels makes in an ad for itself, that it is "the magazine which covers the revolution."

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #36

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

Stanley Aronowitz takes a critical look at the New York Times by briefly explaining the social history of the paper and deconstructing the format and biases of the various sections. Arguing that each section is a social and cultural commentary targeted to a specific audience, Aronowitz points out the gendered notions of the *Sports* section on Mondays and the *Home* section on Thursdays. He suggests that despite its non-tabloid format, the content and presentation of the newspaper parallels TV and magazines, making it no longer a real genuine newspaper but a magazine full of advertisement and opinions. In the last section Aronowitz highlights the New York Times inability to do systematic coverage of significant national news stories, such as the pilot strike in October of 1983.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #37

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Richie Perez Watches "Fort Apache: The Bronx"

Ritchie Pérez gives an in-depth look at the campaign to counteract the negative depictions of Puerto Rican and Blacks in the film Fort Apache: The Bronx. The campaign, as described by Pérez, proved that it is possible to have a unified, collective action against media racism. A clear description of the media's power to amplify and perpetuate harmful stereotypes is followed by an overview of the movie industry, and how the increasing media conglomeration is connected to banks and to the cable industry. Pérez gives an overview of the tactics that were used in the campaign, including boycotts, breaking media blackouts to get media attention, garnering a broad cross section of multi-cultural support, targeting key players and most importantly creating the context in which media needs to be judged by individuals in the public for racism, sexism and classism.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #42

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Peter Rossett and Others Read: The Nicaraguan Press: Extra, Extra...

Rossett is an agronomist and editor of the Nicaraguan Reader.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #44

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Peter Hall Consoles at the AT&T Break-Up

Peter Hall has written for Financial World, the Village Voice and other publications.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #45

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Bill Boddy Reminds The FCC of the 1934 Communications Act

Bill Boddy is the author of a book about 1950's television.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #47

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Bill Tabb Reads Forbes: Capitalist Fool

Bill Tabb examines capitalism through the lens of the money magazine Forbes. Modeled around creator and owner of the magazine, Malcolm S. Forbes, Tabb believes that it serves as an advertisement for capitalism, shedding away the moral aspects of business in lieu of glorifying its sweet capitalist successes while simultaneously catering to and creating a network of business insiders, a separate sect of society who are celebrated for manipulating the public and investors into making them rich.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #48

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Jim Rix Reads: Organic Gardening

Jim Rix is a video engineer and organic gardener.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #49

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Bob Edelman Reads: Sovietski Sport

Bob Edelman is a sports writer and history professor.

1983 TRT: 28 minutes #51

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Patty Zimmerman Reads Variety: Hooray for Hollywood?

Patty Zimmerman gives a critical reading of Variety magazine.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #53

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

Pearl Bowser is the director of Chamba Educational Film Services, an archive of films, stills, and other memorabilia.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #54

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Patrick Esmond-White on TV Demonstrations, 57 Mass Movements and the Media

Patrick Esmond-White examines how the media's manipulation has deflated the power and influence of mass demonstrations. Filmed in Washington DC in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in the same spot that hosted one of most influential and inspiring mass demonstrations for peace and civil rights in 1963, Esmond-White compares the march of 1963 to marches of the present. He believes that the power of the demonstration as a political and social weapon has been defused through police regulation and media's portrayal the events; journalist frame demonstrations in a way that simplifies or leaves out the issues they're based on and portray demonstrators as unmotivated or unfocused. With the issues unspoken and the participants pacified, this media domestication creates an inaccurate and un-empowered viewpoint of American history and activism.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #57

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Eva Cockcroft Reads Art Forum: Art and Language and Money

Eva Cockcroft looks through the pages of Art Forum and critiques the language used and its ability to communicate the ongoings of the art world with the masses.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #58

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Eric Mankin Reads The LA Times, Paper Tiger West Pumps Iron at Gold's Gym

Eric Mankin is a freelance journalist in Los Angeles.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #60

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Judy Butler and Jack Spence Read Nicaragua's "La Prensa"

Judy Butler, former editor of NACLA, has lived in Nicaragua since 1984. Jack Spence teaches at the University of Massachusetts.

1984 TRT: 28 minutes #63

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Nancy Peckenham Reads The U.S. Press on Nicaragua: The Credibility of Cratologists

Nancy Peckenham shows the ways the American press was biased during the 1984 Nicaraguan general election.She explains that the U.S. Newspapers and Reagan administration often gave contradictory and inaccurate information regarding the U.S. backing the opposition's freedom to run in the election and generally dismissed the Sandinista government's democratic values. Footage from Nicaragua's state TV shows otherwise, as each of the oppositional parties had it's electoral campaign broadcast on Sandinista Television.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #65

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F U CN RD THIS SBWY AD: Kathleen Hulser Takes the A Train

Kathleen Hulser gives a critical reading of subway ads.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #67

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

Mark Crispin Miller analyzes the tobacco industry and its advertising by taking a close look at the most heavily advertised product in the USA. Beginning with the cigarette as phallus, he looks at the flagrant early association of the cigarette smoking with eroticism. He then moves on to the more contemporary use of pseudo feminism to sell cigarettes to women in the 80's and the sadomasochistic imagery promoting smoking in the Black community. Miller gives a media analysis that provides a step-by-step break down the psychological intentions used to sell tobacco.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #70

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Jean Franco Reads Mexican Novelas: Adios Machismo! Hola Maquilladora

Jean Franco gives a critical reading of Mexican novelas.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #71

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Herb Schiller Reads: The New York Times: Information and the Crisis Economy

Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times in an analysis of its cultural, political, and economical hegemony in setting the agenda that shapes the news and culture industry.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #73

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Ben H. Bagdikian Reads Bay Area Dailies: The Strange World of San Francisco Print

Ben Bagdikian analyzes why the Bay area's leading newspapers are successful despite the poor quality of journalism. Bagdikian follows the history of the San Francisco Chronicle and it's main competitor, the San Francisco Examiner, and how their eventual partnership has negatively impacted the nature of journalism in the Bay Area. He strikes against the myths and fallacies perpetuated by newspaper publishers that chain-run papers and media monopolies actually improve the quality of journalism. Media mergers often compromise quality by trying to make the most money as possible; instead, Bagdikian shows how lack of competition and diversity brought about by media mergers are harmful to journalistic integrity. The Including on-the-street interviews.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #76

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Doudou Dienne & Claude Robinson Read the MacBride Report and the New World Information Order

Claude Robinson and Doudou Dienne talk about the Macbride Report, a 1980 UNESCO publication whose aim was to analyze communication problems relating to mass media and news. They also explain Inter Press Agency's goals and objectives, that a truly global cultural exchange of media and cultural starts taking place, and that people in the US can access third world cultural products with the same ease that these access american culture.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #80

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The Trial of Tilted Arc

This video documents some of the testimony given in the Trial of Titled Arc. Four years after the commission and installation of Richard Serra's sculpture, Tilted Arc, a public hearing was held to consider the removal of the sculpture from its site in Federal Plaza in New York City. Richard Serra and other artists, politicians, and community members spoke in defense of Tilted Arc, public art, and the role of the government and the people shaping the public's visual environment. Featuring Judge Re - US Court of International Trade Richard Serra.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #81

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Ellin Stein Reads "Vanity Fair": How the Other Half Lives

Ellin Stien gives a critical reading of "Vanity Fair."

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #84

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Nelcya Delanoe Reads "Le Monde:" French Press Slides Right

French Analyst Nelcya Delanoe gives an overview of newspapers in France and how they reflect changes in the political climate over the last 20 years. Her discussion centers on Le Monde, the major French newspaper of the Parisian Left. By using examples of the paper's presentation of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy and the contradictions between the opinions of the articles and cartoons, Delanoe illustrates how the paper has lost its edge by becoming moderate and ambiguous. Delanoe theorizes that Le Monde can be seen as a representation of factions in the post-1968 Left who have accepted positions in the government and diluted their political stances in order to accommodate these roles. This trend had also created a crisis in readership and funding for Le Monde, which, at the time, was narrowly escaping bankruptcy every few months.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #86

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Rereading "The Year of the Dragon": Under Fire

Paper Tiger members Renee Tajima, Amy Chen, and Emily Woo Yamasaki take a look at the pervasive racism and misogyny depicted in Michael Cimino's 1985 sensationalist thriller, Year of the Dragon. Through a rereading and reenactment of Cimino's script, Tajima, Chen and Yamasaki expose the dangerous and immobilizing fictions the films presents about Chinatown. As this collective points out, the troubling depictions put forth in Year of the Dragon broach a range of important topics from Hollywood's misrepresentation of minority communities and reliance on ethnic stereotypes to the routine abuse and subjugation of women in mainstream film. Tajima's live presentation is paired with footage of community protests calling for the nationwide boycott of the Year of the Dragon.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #92

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Dutch Soaps: "Dallas" at Herenstraat 10

Analysis of Dutch soap operas that were made by Leonard Henny and the Center for International Media Research in Holland.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #93

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Brian Winston Looks At Black Sitcoms: "Stereotypes and Lotsa Laffs"

Brian Winston analyzes the issue of reality versus representation in Black sitcoms through watching clips from Different Strokes, Hill Street Blues, Benson, 227, and The Cosby Show. Winston examines the effort made to represent race relations realistically; yet, questions the value of realism in television and the expectation that media can help solve complex social issues. He argues that truthful representation is not enough to solve social problems. The liberal hope of being progressive by showing negative depictions of blacks and racist whites may perpetuate more stereotypes than break harmful boundaries. Winston emphasizes that understanding the television production process is crucial for a critical understanding of how television creates meaning. He also investigates the racial workings of Black television.

1985 TRT: 28 minutes #97

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Archie Singham on the U.S. Press: How the U.N. Is Trivialized

Archie Singham analyzes U.S. press coverage of the United Nations.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #98

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Joel Kovel Reads "El Tayacan": The Newspaper of the Popular Church in Nicaragua

Joel Kovel reads the newspaper of the Popular Church in Nicaragua.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #101

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Betsy Newman and Tom Murrin Read: "The Weekly World News"

Betsy Newman and Tom Murrin give a joint critical reading of "The Weekly World News."

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #102

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Leonard Rifas Reads War Comics

Leonard Rifas attempts to break the wall between reality and fantasy through a critical reading of his favorite war comic books, including Kent Blake of the Secret Service, Tales of the Green Beret, and Sgt. Rock. He also looks at the realism in these comics, revealing that in truth, this realism is based not against reality against other comic books. Rifas also examines the enemies in comic books, showing that despite 40 years having passed since World War II, the significant majority of war comics still dealt with fights against Nazi Germany. He further explored the connections of these comics to several actual wars, including those in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea. An infomercial for hypnotism also finds its place in this program, echoing the ads for hypnotism kits often found on the pages of war comics.

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Joan Does Dynasty

Joan Braderman takes on power and desire in the TV's series "Joan Does Dynasty", a deconstruction in feminist media of the ordinary working person's life. Superimposing herself over portions of "Dynasty" and into the bedrooms, office suites and maids' quarters of the super rich, Braderman asks, "Why do 100 million people in 78 countries welcome this department store of dressed-to-kill aliens into their homes every week?" along with a succinct critical analysis of the disturbing cultural assumptions inherent in the narrative. Co-Director Manual Delanda. Screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC (2008)

1985 TRT: 32 minutes #105

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Paper Tiger Scans The (Inter)National Audio Visual Fe$tival

PTTV's look at the American Film Institute's National Video Festival.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #111

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Louis Freedberg Looks At South African Media: After the Media Blackout

Louis Freedberg, a white South African and editor for Pacific News Service, gives his take on the South African media.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #112

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Jill Macoska Dissects Popular Science Magazines and Beyond: 'Omni," "Discover" and Other Specimens

Jill Macoska on popular science.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #113

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Josefina de Zayas and Isabel Larguia Read the Cuban Press

This episode includes footage of the opening ceremony of Cuba's international Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, which explains its focus on third world cinema. Josefina de Zayas and Isabel Larguia give us an inside look at Cuban's state run press. They review magazines such as "Bohemia", which is dedicated to research pieces on politics and economy, "Revolución y Cultura", which focuses on cultural life, and "Mujeres" concerns itself with women issues including a socialist woman's fashion section.

1986 TRT: 28 minutes #116

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Joel Kovel on the Shrinking of AMERIKA: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Anti-Communism

Joel Kovel deconstructs American anti-communism through a therapist's lens.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #117

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World? What World? Keeping America Disinformed: The World According to U.S. Media

A sampling of Paper Tiger works on world politics and the mainstream media. Herb Schiller, referencing the New York Times, and Brian Winston on TV news, present and overview of media analysis through the coverage of issues such as terrorism and the New World Information Order.

1987 TRT: 15 minutes #120

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NOT TOP GUN: Chip Lorde Looks at the Hollywood Version of the Air Force

Chip Lorde examines the movie Top Gun. According to Lorde, Top Gun is a "slick, fragmentary, superficial, shallow movie made for teenage boys," and he looks at how the world view of the film is adolescent, "constantly jerking itself off, like a teenage boy." Lorde gives a critical analysis of not only the film, but also its publicity materials and advertising strategies. He discusses the real-life weaponry in which the film finds its basis, the background for the production of the film, and the effect of all this on Navy recruitment. Lorde puts forward an in-depth analysis of the cultural symptoms, representations, and effects of the film. The hyper-adolescence of the film is contrasted in the final scenes of this program as Lorde, while constructing a model of the jet, explains the details of the F-14 Tomcat to a young boy. In closing, Lorde points out the contrast between the F-14 with a cultural standing in the 1960s and the film itself, the corporate-propagandistic nature of which places it firmly in the culture of the 90s. Veteran video guerilla Chip Lorde looks at the Hollywood version of the Air Force.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #122

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Dan Hallin Watches CBS News: Spackling the Cracks in the Tube

Dan Hallin critiques CBS News coverage of Contragate.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #124

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Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California

Judith Williamson examines consumer culture in America from the multiplication of products and their functions to capitalism's colonization of the body.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #127

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Getting Away With Murder: Northern Ireland and the U.S. Media

Sany Boyer and Gina Tlamsa explain why we didn't know what was happening in Northern Ireland by examining the media censorship that took place in the United Kingdom and the United States during the Northern Irish conflict of the 1980s. Boyer examines the British government's hand in censoring and misrepresenting the conflict in the mainstream media. Journalists covering the conflict were in London reading press releases instead of doing their own investigation as TV Cameras and journalist were barred from Ireland were also pressured by the British government which kept journalist in the United States from reporting on the issues.Tlamsa takes over for the second half of the show to share her personal experience of when her program at WKCR was pushed off the air after covering the Irish conflict. The show ends with a battle cry demanding "to hear all stories in the media whether or not it is complimentary of the government!" Includes traditional Irish music performed by Tlamsa herself and the Ballad of Joe Doherty, a song about the Irish political prisoner held in the United States under the influence of British government. written by Eric Levine and Chris Henry.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #128

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Herb Schiller Smashes the Crash

Herb Schiller talks about the boons of 1980's America in which he identifies Reganomics and high technology as the primary contributors to the Stock Market crash of 1987.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #134

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Oliver's Army With Eric Mendelson: What Wasn't in the Hearings

Eric Mendelson uncovers what wasn't in the Iran-Contra hearings.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #136

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PWAC Talks Back

Max Navarre talks about the People With AIDS Coalition's publications.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #138

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Vinnie Mosco Goes Home Shopping

Vinnie Mosco takes on the Home Shopping Network. In recreating the products and sales techniques of the Home Shopping Channel, Mosco shows how this absurd cultural phenomenon is rapidly becoming a way of life for millions of Americans; however, the cheap merchandise and comfortable experience that home shopping provides is leading to the reduction and marginalization of the American work force. Mosco finally reveals the impending danger behind America's obsession with HSN to be nothing less than the onset of corporate slavery in which corporations are selling people to people.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #141

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Fashions of The "Times": A Critical Review With Lauren-Glenn Davitian

Lauren Glenn-Davitian examines the photographs of New York Times Fashion supplement, asking "Who is this magazine for?" On every page of the magazine, Glenn-Davitian discovers representations of submissive and isolated women. The show ends with a critique of the mini-series "I'll Take Manhattan."

1987 TRT: 31 minutes #142

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The Pedagogy of Telecommunications: Teaching TV with Media Professors from around The Nation

Inspired by and produced during a conference hosted by the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, this collaboration between Paper Tiger and MATA (Milwaukee Access Television Association) includes presentations by numerous scholars including John Caughie, Hillary Radner, Annie Goldson and Dee Dee Haleck. Drawing on theory from such fields as literary studies, film studies, and political science this small group of media studies academics give short presentations on various aspects of this (then) new way of analyzing television, ranging from exploring the pleasure one draws from TV what it is to teach television studies, from the value of public access to the geographical "front of pedagogy" in television studies. The programs construction features experimental editing, several original songs about television, and excerpts from industry made instructional videos which documents the shift that was taking place (and which has continued to this day) from practice-based media studies to theory-based media studies. Produced at a workshop at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and MATA (Milwaukee Access Television Association).

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #144

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Militarism in America After "Platoon"

Professor Rick Berg and San Diego activist Carol Jahnkow identify the unnoticed presence of militarism in American society. Berg examines the way in which the film Platoon (and others like it) have become the most widely accepted historical realities of the Vietnam War, so much so that they have almost completely displaced the actual event. Carol Jahnkow describes the massive military build up that has been taking place in the San Diego Harbor. This video provides a varied look at the way in which military culture and the production of war have become seemingly innocuous part of our daily lives.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #146

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Daniel Marcus Watches the Campaign Miniseries '88

Daniel Marcus draws parallels between how TV producers and Presidential campaign advisors use the same motifs and tactics to create a popular show. He argues that through the image-based TV medium that does not appeal to the rational mind, a campaign can create a presidential image by touting abstract qualities; but by using the techniques from the entertainment industry it is possible for producers to create presidential characters to which the audience can relate in a more direct way just as they do with sitcom and TV drama characters every night though the set in their living room. Marcus identifies the same plot and character qualities on the "Ronald Reagan Show", running for eight years at the time and quite popular, to the those already familiar to US audience of a sitcom dad with a little John Wayne thrown in for foreign policy. Often time the president is defined by his supporting cast- ie his cabinet, just as the Mary Tyler Moore character is defined in relation to others on the show. When critical issues such as the economy come into play, a president will be more successful if he can be equated with a traditional authority character who inspires confidence just as characters in a familiar TV drama.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #148

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Kelly Anderson, Neil Lazarus and Catherine Saalfield Read "The Weekly Mail"

Analysis of an anti-apartheid South African newspaper with anti-censorship strategies and a non-racial social democratic vision.

1987 TRT: 28 minutes #150

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

Martha Rosler tackles the case of a surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, as represented by the main-stream media. This tape uncovers the class and gender bias of the media coverage and the courts. Extra inventive graphics and kooky dress-up illustrates Rosler's analysis of the court battle, waged within the tricky issue of contemporary reproductive control in America.

1988 TRT: 28 minutes #151

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The Bicentennial Will Not Be Televised

This video serves as a critique of Australia's 200th year celebration, one that completely overlooked the history of imperialism and colonization of its native peoples. In 1988, the year of Australia's bicentennial, the mainstream media shepherded the nation into celebrating the anniversary of British settlement, a massive insult to the ancestors of the aboriginal people who lived there for thousands of years before colonization. Aborigines and activists examine the media's role in molding together the geographically isolated urban pockets of modern Australia's population. This creates a technologically supported collective consciousness or "Technonationalism" in which the country depends on the media to string together a national identity. The bicentennial television special "Australia Live", with the voice of imperialism narrating. The video highlights how Aboriginal media provides an alternative to the mainstream by promoting aboriginal music and artists. It also gives the aboriginal community a political voice to fight against institutionalized racism.

Speakers include Anna Munster, Noel Sanders and Jannette Nolan from Aboriginal Radio, Lorretta Fogarty and Chris Kirk Brigh an indigenous lawyer, linguist, and lecturer.

This PTTV video, in collaboration with the Aboriginal radio station Radio Redfern and the Sydney-based video collective TAPS won a Hometown Video Award.

1988 TRT: 55 minutes #154

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Greg Ulmer on Telerevisioning Literacy

Greg Ulmer on literacy and learning.

1989 TRT: 28 minutes #160

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Martin Lucas Watches "NO" Video: The Chilean Presidential Plebiscite on TV

Lucas covered the Chilean presidential plebiscite for European TV.

1989 TRT: 28 minutes #164

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Fighting the Fundamentalist Fig Leaf

The Mapplethorpe/Serrano controversies sparked a pressing debate on censorship of the arts. Artist David Avalos, Washington Project for the Arts' Philip Brookman, critic Coco Fusco, poet Allen Ginsberg and painter Leon Golub discuss the issues at stake. What is the conservative agenda behind arts censorship and what can we do to combat it?

1989 TRT: 28 minutes #165

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Toys "R" Us: Mark Dion Explicates The Smurfonomics of Smurfs

Mark Dion explicates the smurfonomics of Smurfs.

1989 TRT: 28 minutes #169

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Zero Tolerance: Tony Serra Cross-Examines Bush's War on Drugs

Tony Serra cross-examines President George Bush Senior's "War on Drugs".

1990 TRT: minute #171

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Celebrate Sisterhood! Seize the Day! Women Take to the Streets of NYC

This episode catalogues the major protests and speeches of the highly anticipated International Working Women's Day in NYC. It covers action all over the city, from marches for women's healthcare resources at NYU, to protests for reproductive rights in the South Bronx. Touching on women's struggles from South Africa to Nicaragua and crucial issues like women's labor rights and wages, HIV education, and military spending, the scope of this video spans far more than just the island of New York City; it crosses borders to unearth the larger and more insidious war against women that has been taking place all over the world.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #173

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Drawing the Line at Pittston

"Drawing the Line at Pittston" documents the 1989 coalminers' strike against the Pittston Mine Company in Virginia, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. This strike proved to be a dramatic symbol for unions everywhere as supporters from around the world rallied behind the United Mine Workers. Although, this immense demonstration was one of the biggest US labor strikes in the last fifty years, it gained little to no coverage in the mainstream media. Through a series of interviews with strike workers, their families and local religious and community leaders, PTTV attempts to illuminate the gradual political awakening of a working-class community that was nearly swallowed up by the machinations of corporate greed.

1990 TRT: 1 hour #174

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This Is A Sex Ad

An exposé of the Catholic Church's anti-choice public relations campaign.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #180

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US Bans Abortion? Title X Restrictions: A Policy that Kills

Questions about the effects of Title X, 'the gag rule', denying counseling on the legal right to an abortion. Produced in collaboration with WHAM.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #182

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Kids Views on News

With Carla Seal-Wanner and Children's Express of the children's news service.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #186

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The Silence that Silences: Bob Kinney reads Rosilind Solomon

Independent producer Bob Kinney analyzes Rosilind Solomon's photographs of people with AIDS.

1990 TRT: 25 minutes #187

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New York's Hometown Strike

Labor, media, and the The Daily News strike.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #190

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Ads! Ads! Ads!: Mark Crispin Miller Journeys Through the Expanding Geography of American Advertising

Mark Crispin Miller examines the advertising world before and after television. With the advent of TV, ads that were once in danger of being ironized by their socio-political surroundings become buffered from the contradictions of the outside world. What results, says Miller, is "an internal policing of the spectacle." He also discusses the effects of product placement within American films.

1990 TRT: 28 minutes #192

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Operation Storm the Media

This show explores the relationship between corporate sponsorship and media censorship via coverage of the "Challenge the Media" demonstration in NYC in January 1991. PTTV and Renu Nahata from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) comment on the media's packaging of the war. Winner of the 1991 Visions of the US video competition.

1991 TRT: 28 minutes #195

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Paper Tiger workshop on public access at NFLCP.

1991 TRT: 28 minutes #199 ----

World? What World? Keeping America Disinformed: The World According to U.S. Media

In a sampling of Paper Tiger works on world politics and the mainstream media, Herb Schiller, on the New York Times, and Brian Winston, on TV news, cover issues such as terrorism and the New World Information Order. This video presents an overview of media analysis and is used as a precursor to other more specific Paper Tiger programs.

1987 TRT: 15 minutes #120

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The Devil & Mr. Moyers: Joel Kovel Tweaks the Halo of PBS

Joel Kovel looks at "The Public Mind," the Bill Moyers series about the U.S. media, society and deception. Kovel exposes Mr. Moyers as a journalistic angel whose wings have been fluffed by the likes of LBJ and Johnson & Johnson Co. This program exposes the problems in the Public (?) Broadcasting System.

1991 TRT: 28 minutes #213

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Luis R. Beltran Tunes in to Bolivian Miners' Radio

Luis Beltran describes the creation and activities of the radical Bolivian miners¹ radio station poised in the Andes Mountains. For twenty years this radio station has been the voice of miners, peasants, and working people; Beltran cites this example as a model for people empowering themselves and fighting for their right to access communications resources. Produced in collaboration with Paper Tiger Columbus.

1991 TRT: 28 minutes #215

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Paper Tiger Television: A Retrospective, 1981-1986 (Part I)

In a sampling of ten years of television from Herb Schiller, Archie Singham, and Joan Braderman, this show features segments from Paper Tiger's ten-year history of media art, activism and critical, ruthless analyses of the information industry. Speakers ranging from Serafina Bathrick, Armond White, Terry Odendahl, Page DuBois, Renee Tajima, Martha Roster, and Bob Edelman question the many myths of mass media while empowering audiences worldwide. Captured in this retrospective show, the first ten years of Paper Tiger Television are used as examples of media activism and creative scrutiny of corporate print culture.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #217

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Lauren Shulman Watches Beverly Hills 90210

Lauren Schulman analyzes the popular 90's teen drama, Beverly Hills 90210. Schulman looks at the unreality that is present in a show that became intensely popular for its representation of the reality faced by young people growing up in the 90's. It focuses on exposing the stereotypes of the simplistic characters, the moralistic and over-simplified plot lines, and the impossibly beautiful actors and other quirks.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #219

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The Last Frontier: Nancy Hurley Explores Race Relations in Star Trek

Although Star Trek was praised for its innovative representation of racial dynamics, Nancy Hurley shows that the supposedly "utopian racial politics" of Star Trek were nothing more than an assimilationist vision of the future. In this PTTV episode, Hurley exposes the underlying racial imperatives of the classic sci-fi thriller. Hurley deconstructs the most foundational elements of the show, from Uhura and Sulu's acquisitions of whiteness to Spock's not so subtle occupation as the black character, to the suggestive and dangerous metaphor of the alien.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #221

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Tompkins Square Park: Operation Class War on the Lower East Side

This production pieces together the unofficial story behind the Riot of '88 and reveals the ugly side of forced gentrification in New York City. The production traces the transformation of Tompkins Square Park from being a tent city for homeless people and bastion of free expression for artists, bohemians, rebels and crazies, to becoming a central battleground in the fiercely contested class war over the Lower East Side, to a riot scene complete with burning trash cans and unwarranted police violence, to an empty, fenced-in wasteland, and finally, to the safe and sterile environment it is today. The production features interviews with people who made their home in Tompkins Square Park in the 80's and those that defended their right to do so, as well as guerilla footage from the riots, rallies, and protests that occurred in and around the park. It also includes analysis of the political and press environments that allowed the city government's seizure of the park.

1992 TRT: 1 hour #225

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Unpacking Ted Koppel's Revolution in a Box: Revolution? What a Crock!

Dan Rabbit critiques Ted Koppel's examination of the camcorder revolution; Unpacking presents some insights into mainstream journalism's views toward this revolutionary medium.

1990 TRT: 16 minutes #227

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Breathless: A Toxic Newsflash

In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators as a way to solve the city's growing waste problem. These toxic incinerators posed a great health threat to people and the environment. In addition, the decision to build the incinerators in only lower income, disenfranchised neighborhoods was seen as the newest form of institutional racism. This video examines the economic, social and political aspects of this issue, and makes a case for alternative plans to incineration, such as extensive recycling and composting. Produced by Cathy Scott and Susan Levine of PTTV.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #228

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Video Dial Tone: Malling our Free Speech

Produced immediately after the FCC ruling on Video Dialtone, this video examines the possible effects of the telecommunications entry into the cable market.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #229

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Low Power Empowerment: Neighborhood Radio in Ireland and the United States

This video focuses on the existence of two community radio stations and the people who make them work. Mbanna Kantako's Black Liberation Radio along with the housing projects in Springfeild, Illinois were underattack from the police and the FBI; however, the station continues to fight to exist as the voice of the people. In Galway, Ireland there is a very different station called Galway Pirate Women in which this group has programmed radio about the social and political life of, for, and by women in Ireland.

1992 TRT: 28 minutes #231

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Somalia: Kill to Feed

In Operation Restore Hope, the American government claimed to be sending in the marines with a humanitarian mission. Asha Samad, Ali Hussein of SAFRAD, and Clayton Ramey of the war Resisters League investigate if there is more to the story by asking the following questions: What colonial history, military buildup, and economic interests were behind a good-will invasion into this "scary Mad Max world," as dubbed by the U.S. media cheer-leaders? Was Somalia a "hungry but grateful nation"?

1993 TRT: 28 minutes #233

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Staking a Claim in Cyberspace: Information Policy for the People

Who is going to build and control the new Information Superhighway: the data, voice, and video communication tool of the future? Will 500+ television channels mean greater access for those people and ideas which are currently invisible? Produced for the Deep Dish Satellite Network, this video describes the converging technologies of computers, telephone, and interactive TV. Presented are the voices and ideas of media advocates and community organizers working to ensure that the Information Superhighway is accessible and functional for all people.

1993 TRT: 28 minutes #236

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NAFTA: A Three Way Tie for Last

This video presents the concerns of Canadian, American, and Mexican workers and Native American farmers and environmentalists, as they try to inform the American public aout this dangerous trade policy; the voices that you didn't hear during the so-called "debate" around the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico which set the economic tone against workers and the environment.

1993 TRT: 28 minutes #238

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Sisterhood™: Hyping the Female Market

This video takes an analytical stab at the plethora of "pro-feminist" advertising that followed the emergence of the "new woman" and the increasing presence of women in the workforce during the 1990s. Conventional television genres are appropriated to show how the language and sentiments of feminism have been exploited by the advertising of an industry which cares little for the rights of its own female workers. Through critical examinations of Nike advertising, this show explores the corporate co-optation of feminism that creates a superficial form of " feminine" empowerment, offering female consumer's freedom of choice—that is, freedom to choose between a wide array of products. Those involved in this production believe that this marketable feminism is believed to not only undermines the accomplishments of the woman's movement but also diverts consumers' attention away from the social and economic injustices that affect women globally. This co-opting of feminist rhetoric is particularly egregious in the face of the threatened rights of female workers, as evidenced by Nike's very own questionable and hypocritical overseas' labor practices. Produced by Paper Tiger SouthWest.

1993 TRT: 25 minutes #241

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Mythmaking: The Balkans

Bill Weinberg of the Balkan War Resource Group and Laura Flanders of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting turn a critical eye on the mainstream media and discuss the consequences of this kind of oversimplified and dramatic coverage. This video also highlights the efforts of individuals and activist groups working to end the war and conflict in the former Yugoslavia and resist the policies of their nationalistic leaders.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #244

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NetRoots: Cultivating the Digital Park

This show gives an early analysis of information equity issues surrounding the internet through an examination of the need for a policy that guarantees public access to the information superhighway: new computer networks and information resources are sprouting up all over the globe as new users continue to redefine and cultivate the communications landscape. Schools, community groups, local governments and individuals are creating digital gardens where we all can sow the seeds of our communications future. This show examines how the paths connecting our digital gardens must be protected from the gates of private interest by a policy which should nurture public communications.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #247

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The Power and The Pride

Members of "Lesbian Avengers" and "Stonewall Now" discuss counter activities to the mainstream 25th anniversary celebration of Stonewall—a consumer-oriented, transphobic and apolitical commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. This show features Melanie Fallon and Lysander Puccio, members of Lesbian Avengers, and Julia Smedley, a member of Stonewall Now. Both organizations discuss actions planned to counter Stonewall 25, which reflects a limited, mainstream understanding of gay culture and politics.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #249

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Disfunction: A Case of the Health Care Blues

Marilyn Clements and Diane Lacy Winley of "Health Care: We Gotta Have It" explain how the crisis in health care would best be resolved with a Single- Payer Healthcare System, a movement that was derailed by First Lady Hilary Clinton.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #250

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Big vs. Small: Overcrowding in NYC Public Schools

With thousands of students enrolled and 30 kids in a single class, overcrowding in public schools was a significant challenge faced by public school students in the early 90's and remains a difficult dilemma still today. This youth-produced exploration of the issue, explores how overcrowding affects school safety, violence, and the learning environment through the eyes of those who live it. Through testimonials with teens attending some of the most crowded schools in New York City and those enrolled in smaller schools, the video makes the case for smaller classes, smaller schools, and individualized attention as a necessary way to improve education in New York City.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #253

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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Giving a Face to the Death Penalty

Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal and why has he been sentenced to death in the state of Pennsylvania?

This tape looks at the personal history of Mumia Abu-Jamal, from his membership in the Black Panther Party, to his career as an award-winning journalist, and ending with his trial and sentencing in the death of a Philadelphia police officer. Interviews with his legal counsel, friends, and colleagues expose the criminal ways the prosecution attained his conviction and the concerted efforts on the part of the Fraternal Order of Police, the FBI, and the mainstream media to silence this prominent revolutionary journalist.This video raises critical questions about the rights of the accused, the inherent injustice of the U.S. judicial system when trying the poor and people of color, the function of the death penalty in the U.S., and our first amendment right to free speech.

1995 TRT: 28 minutes #260

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Amy Goodman Takes Aim at the Contract on America

This episode exposes the 1994 Contract With America, a document written by the US Republican Party detailing the actions the party promised to take if they became majority party in the United States House of Representatives. Amy Goodman tries to decipher: What lies behind the Republicans' Contract with America? What we find is more of a contract ON America, one that details a programmatic assault on civil liberties and women's rights. In response to the media representation around the Contract, and citizens' protests against it, comes the demand that media MUST stop being a vehicle for those in power. In order for the country to have a free media, it has reflect the democracy in this country, that is, the input of people who make up the majority of the population as opposed to the powerful minority.

1994 TRT: 28 minutes #263b

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Narrowcasting: Technology and the Rise of the Christian Right

This video explores the Christian Right's use of a constellation of communication technologies: satellite networks, cable TV, video production, and the internet to achieve their vision for the future, a dark void of democracy. With an in-depth analysis of this theocratic movement by authors Sara Diamond and Fred Clarkson, and activist/researchers Loretta Ross, Chip Berlet and the Rev. Barry Lynn, they point to how stealth campaigning, wedge issues, and "family values are used to navigate the program.

1996 TRT: 28 minutes #265

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Colombia and the Media: Illusions of a Drug War

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The Colombia Media Project bring us an in-depth look at the mainstream media's misrepresentation of the political conflict in Colombia. In this presentation of Colombia's political situation, Mario A. Murillo locates the tragic global consequences of the US' "War on Drugs" in Colombia's rural communities. Murillo's presentation is spliced with Victoria Maldonado's interview with exiled Colombian journalist and human rights activist Richard Velez, who has been a vocal witness to his country's "Dirty War". Velez was forced to flee Colombia when he recorded army troops killing civilian protestors. This interview used Velez's story to reveal the paradoxical nature of US foreign policy in Colombia, which has allowed the Colombian government to perpetrate extreme violence and civil rights abuses all in the name of the US-led War on Drugs. Ironically, as Mario A. Murillo points out, the US media is equally complicit in obscuring this country's strife by figuring Colombia simply as "the Kingdom of Cocaine."

1998 TRT: 28 minutes #274

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Keep On Livin'

Le Tigre, encapsulated by Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and J.D. Samson, is a feminist electronic-punk band that has staged multi-media performance art within our live show. In collaboration with Le Tigre, Paper Tiger Television organized a group of G/B/L/TS/T/Q youth in New York to produce a three minute video for the song "Keep On Livin'". This visual layer will foreground conceptual and theoretical ideas that might otherwise be lost in the rock club settings where the band often perform.

2002 TRT: 3 minutes #308

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Restating the Union

"Restating the Union Address" attempts to correct George Bush's 2003 State of the Union Adress, a speech that "dropped the ball in the fact-checking department". Featuring pop-ups correcting President George''s most obvious blunders, it also includes interviews with anti-war demonstrators in Manhattan, Washington D.C., and the Bronx. It is rounded out with a counter-military recruitment segment and a segment from the PTTV/Impact Coalition/Bronx Defenders production "War and the Economy" where High School students from the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn look at how the threat of war with Iraq would economically impact the communities of New York.

2003 TRT: 28 minutes #311

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Resisting the Empire

Resisting the Empire was completed as a tool to critique the media's coverage and participation in the War in Iraq (Gulf War II). Resisting the Empire features interviews with organizers from DRUM, Peace Williamsburg, The Green Party, Corporate Lawyers Against the War, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Colombia Social Justice, Labor against the War, Riot Grrls NYC, Nodutdol, High school students, a Long Island resident and father of 4, and other New York based organizations. The show looks at the history of US military involvement and foreign policy, the corporate media's coverage of the resistance against the war, techniques for illustrating military intervention on the major networks, and gives some instructions on how to get involved in your own community in activism for peace.

2003 TRT: 28 minutes #316

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Homeless in Toronto: Fighting Back

Dee Dee Halleck and Rebecca Garrett help relate the struggles of the homeless in Toronto, Canada. The last two years have seen major confrontations as the population of people without shelter seek redress by squatting, protesting, live-ins in the municipal park and a militant march on the Canadian parliament. Although continually met with violence and harassment, they fight back for the right to affordable housing. This program features John Clark, who had been charged with sedition against the nation for his actions as a leader of OCAP, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Clark is an inspirational leader whose tactics have influenced homeless organizing from Delhi to Capetown. His persecution by the Canadian government is used as an example of the attempts to silence international radical opposition. This production was made by students at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) and OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design.)

2003 TRT: 28 minutes #315

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Hollywood Victory: Delusions of a Maverick President

Produced in reaction to George Bush Jr's landing on the USS Lincoln to declare an "end to physical combat" in Iraq in June 2003, Hollywood Victory is a culture Jamm to offer an alternate spin to what the corporate media dishes out.

2003 TRT: 3 minutes #318

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