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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: RESOURCE: Paper Tiger Videos & "Deep-Dish" Satellite Network (autopost)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.093004.2771@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:30:04 GMT
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- P A P E R T I G E R T E L E V I S I O N
- Smashing The Myths Of The Information Industry
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- PTTV offers half hour videos which critique
- mainstream media and analyze its impact on
- social and political life.
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- Over 200 titles available for sale or rental for
- classroom, public or community screenings.
-
- paper tiger television
- is a mostly live public access show
- it looks at the communications industry via the
- media in all its various forms
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- the power of mass culture
- rests on the trust of the public
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- this legitimacy is a paper tiger
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- investigation into the corporate structures of the
- media and a critical analysis of their contents is one
- way to demystify the information industry
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- developing a critical consciousness about the
- communications industry is a necessary first step towards
- democratic control of information resources
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- call or write for a compete Cat*A*Log
- Paper Tiger Television * 339 Lafayette Steet
- New York, NY 10012 * (212)420-9045
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- +++++++++++++++++++++++
- D E E P D I S H T V
- +++++++++++++++++++++++
- Deep What?
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- "Deep Dish (as in parabolic and apple or pizza pie) is a national
- satellite network linking access producers and programmers,
- independent videomakers, activists and people who support the idea and
- reality of a progressive television network"
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- "How It Works [without the wonderful accompanying cartoons]
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- People around the country make shows
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- v
- We take 'em to an "uplink" which beams
- the program up to a satellite --
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- v
- The satellite beams the program back to
- earth in a pattern called a "footprint"
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- v
- Anyone wiht a satellite dish can
- receive the Deep Dish programs
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- v
- Public Access Cable Ssytems send it
- out to all the subscribers in town --
- which is how Deep Dish gets to your home
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- All programs are transmitted on transponder 22 of the satellite Satcom
- IV (except where noted). Each show is transmitted Tuesday from
- 2:00-3:00 PM with a repeat Thursday from 6:00-7:00 PM. Contact the
- Deep Dish office for more information at 212-473-8933.
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- Complete Fall 1991 Schedule available.
-
- Deep Dish
- 339 Lafayette Street
- New York NY USA 10012
- (212) 473-8933
- (Deep Dish Television)
- Keys: alternative, media, information
-
- PeaceNet address (from Internet accounts):
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- deepdish@igc.org
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