Paper Tiger, Noam Chomsky and a large group of media analysts examine the meaning behind the methods of the mass media and entertainment industries during the first Gulf war. With network news playing on monitors behind their news desk, the Tigers deconstruct coverage of the conflict. This illuminates the ways in which coverage of war by the media does not serve the public interest, but instead is led by economic and political interests. An interview with the then President of ABC news, in which he declares, “I am a banker,” renders these interests all the more clear. With support from Lynn Joyrich, a professor at Brown University, the anchors argue that there is, in actuality, no unmediated communication. The mass media attempts to hide this by instituting such strategies as direct address and the use of personal pronouns in attempts to create a sense of intimacy. The program also examines how the media willingly accepted a sort of censorship, valuing military experts over all other commentators, and frequently undermining the peace effort and anti-war rallies. The group goes on to look critically at how the Superbowl is constructed as a military event, how television commercials were re-conceptualized in alignment with the war effort, and how examples of unquestioned assumptions in network news (e.g. those of CNN, SADDAM=HITLER) exemplify Noam Chomsky’s statement that “What we [the United States government] say goes” and give evidence of the still active imperialism of the West over the Middle East. This extremely entertaining and deeply piercing mock-up of network news is a must see and is as applicable todayas it was at it was at the time when the Tiger anchors broke the story.