The Paper Tiger Television's ART, ACTIVISM and ANALYSIS series: America's Least Wanted with FAIR's Janine Jackson; Subverting the Media--ways to make your own

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1995 America's Least WantedTRT:29:30
Lock your doors, buy 'The Club' and move to Connecticut: crime is everywhere, and according to your local media purveyors, it's getting worse. But is it? "America's Least Wanted" takes a bite out of crime hysteria by exposing the media's fetish for high-profile crime stories. Let Paper Tiger and Robin Andersen take you on a America's Least Wantedrare trip through the mean streets of corporate gangland, where necktied hoodlums get away with mass murder while a disinterested media and justice system turn a blind eye. Learn how prisons have become a high-stakes profit-making venture and why the Crime Bill is only the latest in ineffective and repressive anti-crime legislation. Don't miss an action-packed minute. Robin Andersen, Ph.D., teaches Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and is the Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program. She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on media issues and the influence of TV and Advertising on American society. She is the author of "Consumer Culture and TV Programming", published by Westview Press and editor of "Critical Studies in Media Commercialism" by Oxford University Press. Her book titled, "Media and War: Censorship, Propaganda and Myth in the Information Age" was published in 2006. She is frequently interviewed as an expert source on media issues for radio, television and newspaper reporting. She is also featured in numerous educational documentaries.

1998 Subverting the Media: A Guide To Low Tech Information ActivismTRT:29:30
From stencils to 'zines to graffiti and poster art, "Subverting the Media" takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective "Sister Serpents", Bronx-based graffiti group, "Tats Cru" and Sabrina Margarita Sandata, a feminist zinester, challenge social and cultural stereotypes through their work. The program explores the potential everyone has to create their own media, examines the process for creating the message, and demonstrates how to go out and make your own media.