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

Tape# 1 One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1981. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1981 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times : New York Times and The New World Information Order

Tape# 2 One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1981. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1981 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: 712 Pages of Waste; The Sunday Times

Tape# 3 Herb Schiller in top form provides a quick and quippy deconstruction of the wasteful excess of the NYTimes. The NYTimes sets the agenda of what to think about and gives us the standard around which to organize our lives. From the initial physical analysis of the massive heft and size of the paper, to a page-turning cruise of the excessive space given to advertising, his analysis hits the mark. Thumping all 8 pounds of the NY Sunday Times on the table he demonstrates that shear size of the NYTimes is a testament to the fact that the American economy “lives and runs on waste”. Meanwhile much of the waste in the NYTimes comes from the ads- 88 pages of ads for luxury goods, furs, high end liquor, resort wear, cars and jewelry, in the Times Sunday Magazine before even getting to a substantial article. This careful reading shows how the NYTimes sets the political agenda from foreign affairs to potential presidential candidates, aesthetic agenda in architecture, and through the NYT Book Review wields enormous influence in dictating what books are read and noticed: those distributed by the large publishers that advertise in the same pages. A particularly insightful look at how an article on nuclear energy in the USA neatly deflects the fact that American’s consume gross amounts of the world energy sources by suggesting that other nations would if they could. Includes a look at the travel and real estate sections as well. Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society.One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1981. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1981 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: Hanging Out In Consumer Capitals: Foreign Correspondents

Tape# 4 One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1981. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 minutes
Released: 1981 Format ($175.00)

Categories | International Perspectives | Deconstructing the News Industry | Consumerism, Capitalism and Corporations
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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: Washington Talk; First Names In D.C.

Tape# 5 One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1982. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 mintues
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Herb Schiller Reads New York Times: The Neediest and The Greediest; Metropolitan Section

Tape# 6 One of the first Paper Tiger Television shows… ever! This is one of the first 6 shows that started it all. Broadcast live on public access television in NYC 1981. Communications expert Herb Schiller dissects the New York Times newspaper of record in these classic PTTV episodes. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. A biting 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. Do you know where your brains are? Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society. TRT: 28 mintues
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Ann Marie Buitrago reads Agents' Names Censored By the U.S. Congress

Tape# 7 Anne Marie Buitrago was the director for the Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA). TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Free Speech and Censorship
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Teresa Costa Reads: Biker Lifestyles

Tape# 8 Teresa Costa: critical reading of Biker Lifestyles. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Pop Culture
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Conrad Lynn Reads Commentary: From Postwar Liberalism to the New Right

Tape# 9 Conrad Lynn dissects "Commentary." Lynn was a noted Civil Rights attorney. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Free Speech and Censorship
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Karen Paulsell reads Computer World and NYCOSH: Special on Video Data Terminals

Tape# 10 Karen Paulsell gives a critical reading of Computer World and NYCOSH. Paulsell is a hacker at the Community Memory Project in San Francisco. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Science and Technology
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Joel Kovel Reads Covert Action: A Salute to the Scourge of the CIA

Tape# 11 Joel Kovel: critical reading of Covert Action. Joel Kovel is an American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist with a background in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Natalie Didn't Drown: Joan Braderman Reads The National Enquirer

Tape# 12 Joan Braderman: critical reading of The National Enquirer. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Sol Yurick Reads The New Criterion: Search for Quality After the Revolution

Tape# 13 Sol Yurick analyzes The New Criterion, a New York-based literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism. Sol Yurick is a science fiction writer and one of the founders of PISA, the Public Interest Satellite Association - an organization that tried to set aside space for the public on the many commercial satellites in the 1970s. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

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

Tape# 14 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. Ewen maintains, as we continue our consumption of this media we sink further into a vicious cycle were the most exaggerated headlines of the Post form the nightmare that we come to call our daily lives. This tape perfectly embodies the media reformist spirit that founded Paper Tiger and that still keeps our cameras going today. Stuart Ewin is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College in New York City. He has published several important texts dealing with issues of media and cultural critique including: PR! A Social History of Spin, All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture, and Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Sheila Smith-Hobson Reads Newsweek: Newsweek Discovers Central America

Tape# 15 Sheila Smith-Hobson gives a critical reading of the popular news magazine Newsweek. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry
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Joel Kovel Reads Psychology Today: Technocracy/Consumerism/Psychology

Tape# 16 Joel Kovel: critical reading of Psychology Today. Kovel is an American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist with a background in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Pop Culture
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Tuli Kupferberg Reads Rolling Stone: Always Smile When You Give ‘Em the Shaft

Tape# 17 Tuli Kupferberg is an original Fug and publisher of underground comics. Here he takes a deeper look at 80s mainstream pop with a reading of Rolling Stone magazine. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Pop Culture
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Stanley Diamond Reads Scholastic Magazine: Dis-Informing the Kids

Tape# 18 Stanley Diamond gives a critical reading of Scholastic Magazine. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Youth | Education
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Ynestra King Reads Seventeen: Selling the All-American Girl

Tape# 19 Ynestra King works with the Womens Pentagon Action Group and is an eco-feminist. Here she takes on teen rag Seventeen Magazine. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Youth | Pop Culture
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Murray Bookchin Reads Time: History as a Television Series

Tape# 20 Murray Bookchin, an anarchist and author, gives a critical reading of Time magazine. Libertarian socialist, founder of social ecology and author of Toward an Ecological Society, Murray Bookchin tackles the pacification of world news through the pages of Time magazine. As the past, present, and future of America is blurred week-by-week, "Time obliterates time" Bookchin claims. 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. Just as in watching TV, we are lulled into complacency because the news is given in a way in which all issues are treated the same, with the same bland mediocre tone. In 1982 Time Inc., the multi-billion dollar, international conglomerate that owned Time magazine earned only a fraction of its profits from the periodical. Time Inc also owned major book companies, over 100 cable systems, the largest chunk of privately owned land in Texas, and published half a dozen other popular magazines. Time magazine stands as another example of how giant media conglomerations sway toward quantity rather than quality of media products. Great example of PTTV’s early productions, with a classic hand-painted set, live-performance and a funky, homemade music video. TRT: 28 minutes.
Released: 1982 Format ($175.00)

Categories | Deconstructing the News Industry | Consumerism, Capitalism and Corporations
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