• Tax-exempt organization of radical video makers, distributors and activists
• Created radical satellite TV channel Deep Dish TV to distribute its videos nationwide like a TV network
• Funded with taxpayer dollars appropriated for the arts

Paper Tiger Television (PTTV, also known as the Paper Tiger Television Collective) is an organization of radical video makers, distributors and activists. "Since 1981 PTTV, an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective, has challenged and exposed the corporate domination of mainstream media," says its website, "using the non-commercial, uncensored channels to counterbalance [the] negative influence of mass media. PTTV works to involve communities in the process of making media and advocates for more equitable and democratic control of the information industry."

The operation began in 1981, when veteran video producer Dee Dee Halleck brought together several other producers to "create an entire new series devoted to critical readings of newspapers, magazines, and media issues." Dubbed  Paper Tiger Television, it began to show its programming on Manhattan public access in 1982. Tapes of the shows were distributed to universities, museums, access channels and art centers, thanks to funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.  PTTV currently markets its videotapes for $181.68 per copy.

One Paper Tiger TV video is Standing With Palestine, which reflects the views of the group SUSTAIN ("Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now"). Crash the G8 Party and Showdown in Seattle are two of the many anti-capitalist videos in PTTV's catalog, for sale alongside Paper Tiger TV Flushes Rush, which derides popular radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Class Dismissed features the views of Professor Howard Zinn and "provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at … the information that never seems to make it onto the textbook pages … [and] the lack of race and class analysis in textbooks." Resisting the Empire was produced in 2003 "as a tool with which to critique the media's coverage and participation in the War in Iraq."

Paper Tiger TV's web index to Alternative Media Links offers visitors instant hyperlinks to numerous leftist sites. Among these are Free Speech TV, Deep Dish TV, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City, the Unabomber for President Political Action Committee, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and Radio Havana in Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship in Cuba. 

Paper Tiger has drawn accolades from MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky, who writes, "The media has become more doctrinaire and rigid, and more and more people are rightly seeking serious alternatives of the kind Paper Tiger has been providing so well." 

In 1986, using taxpayer money appropriated for the arts as they did to create Paper Tiger TV, Dee Dee Halleck and her PTTV cohorts launched the satellite channel Deep Dish TV to provide instant distribution to local cable systems nationwide of videos produced by left activists.

PTTV and Deep Dish both rent office space in the same building, at 339 Lafayette Street in New York City. This building, owned by the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, is home to so many radical organizations that it has been nicknamed the "Peace Pentagon." Among its tenants are Not In Our Name (NION), the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the War Resisters League (WRL), the Socialist Party of New York City, the pro-Sandinista group Nicaragua Solidarity Network, and many more. Several of these groups have been lionized on Paper Tiger Television and Deep Dish TV.