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Reading the Media

Reading the Media

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Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.” Punk and experimental, Paper Tiger Television was such an alternative. The series, Reading the Media, featured all manner of intellectuals, artists, and activists analyzing, and satirizing newspapers, magazines, and even cigarette ads to decipher their hidden codes, messages, and ideologies.

Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.” Punk and experimental, Paper Tiger Television was such an alternative. The series, Reading the Media, featured all manner of intellectuals, artists, and activists analyzing, and satirizing newspapers, magazines, and even cigarette ads to decipher their hidden codes, messages, and ideologies.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Donna Haraway Reads 'The National Geographic'

Donna Haraway— of A Cyborg Manifesto fame, and one of today’s most recognized public intellectuals—reads National

EP 2

Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa

With dry wit and unremitting intensity lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates the way U.S.

EP 3

Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times

Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. foreign policy towards Central America through deconstruction of

EP 4

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue

Vogue: It is glamour. It is excitement, romance, drama, wishing, dreaming, winning, success. The artist Martha Rosler is

EP 5

Murray Bookchin Reads Time Magazine

Historian, political philosopher, environmentalist, and anarchist Murray Bookchin demonstrates how Time magazine obliter

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler