Critical Writing Index

Meet the Press: On Paper Tiger Television

by Martha Gever

Afterimage, Nov. 1983, v. 11, no. 4, pp. 7-11

This article discusses a New York based weekly series on public access cable channels C and D called Paper Tiger Television. This program attacks the ideologies and economics of mass media through a series of readings analyzed by a variety of commentators. Their criticisms often discuss the falsification and conglomeration of print and television media.

ITEM 1983.030 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Reads Time – Murray Brookchin

Reads Seventeen – Ynestra King

Reads the Wall Street Journal – Tom Weinberg

Reads TV Guide – Brian Winston

Reads Agents Names – Ann Marie Buitrago

Reads Rolling Stone – Tuli Kupferberg

Reads US News and World Report – Bill Tabb

Reads Covert Action – Joel Kovel

Reads Biker Life Style – Teresa Costa

Reads Vogue – Martha Rosler

Reads Psychology Today – Joel Kovel

Reads the New Crierion – Sol Yurick

Reads Scholastic Magazine – Stanley Diamond

Reads Newsweek – Sheila Smith-Hobson

Reads Computer World – Karen Paulsel

Reads the New York Post – Stuart Ewen

Reads Working Woman – Serafina Bathrick

Reads Commentary – Conrad Lynn

Reads TV News – Brian Winston

Reads the National Enquirer – John Braderman

Reads Business Week – Tuli Magdoff

Reads Ebony – Myrna Bain

Reads the Washington Post – Alex Cockburn

Reads Foreign Policy – Archie Singham

Reads Cosmopolitan – Muriel Dimen