Paper Tiger Television is a New York-based, non-profit, volunteer video collective founded in 1981. The collective has produced weekly public access television programming that critiques media, culture, and politics. Since its creation, Paper Tiger TV has produced more than 320 videos that aim to expose and fight against the corporate control of mainstream media. These programs have been shown nationally on public access television stations, and internationally in screenings and installations.
In 1985, Paper Tiger Television established Deep Dish TV Satellite Network, the first national public access satellite network. Deep Dish TV has since become independent of Paper Tiger TV; however, the two organizations collaborated extensively in 1991 to produce the Gulf Crisis Television Project, a ten-part series exploring many aspects of the Gulf War.
Paper Tiger Television has also been active in social and media activism. Members of the collective have organized several workshops and programs that enable at risk youths and other marginalized groups to have their own voice and become their own advocates. Several of the videos produced through these workshops and programs have gone on to be shown in film festivals and screenings.
From the guide to the Paper Tiger Television Archive, ca. 1981-2008, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)
